[hobbit] client problems - connection refused

[Dan Vande More]

Do you have "bbd" in the bb-hosts file for these clients with these
problems?

Only the server should have "bbd".


On 8/22/07, Frank Flynn <frank at declan.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Aug 22, 2007, at 3:54 PM, Haertig, David F (Dave) wrote:
>
> > "I cannot telnet to the clients on port 1984 - so naturally the hobbit
> > server thinks bbd is dead.:
> >
> > The clients don't listen on port 1984, the server does.  The clients
> > initiate connection to the server, not the other way around.
>
> OK, my mistake - they are not doing it.  The Server shows all the
> clients (except itself) are red under bbd.
>
> So now I go to the client and login as the hobbit user and I can
> telnet to the server on port 1984
>
> and I can run bb:
>
> hobbit at ap1:~/client/bin$ ./bb --debug 10.1.90.22 "query
> ap1.lax1.boredat.com conn"
> 2007-08-22 11:19:00 Transport setup is:
> 2007-08-22 11:19:00 bbdportnumber = 1984
> 2007-08-22 11:19:00 bbdispproxyhost = NONE
> 2007-08-22 11:19:00 bbdispproxyport = 0
> 2007-08-22 11:19:00 Recipient listed as '10.1.90.22'
> 2007-08-22 11:19:00 Standard BB protocol on port 1984
> 2007-08-22 11:19:00 Will connect to address 10.1.90.22 port 1984
> 2007-08-22 11:19:00 Connect status is 0
> 2007-08-22 11:19:00 Sent 31 bytes
> 2007-08-22 11:19:00 Closing connection
>
> So the client appears to be working (yes?)
>
> Back on the server bbd is still red and if I click on it (the red
> icon under bbd) I see the message:
>
> Service bbd on ap1.lax1.boredat.com is not OK : Service unavailable
> (Connection refused)
>
> How can I debug this?
>
> Frank
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Frank Flynn [mailto:frank at declan.com]
> > Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2007 4:20 PM
> > To: hobbit at hswn.dk
> > Subject: [hobbit] client problems - connection refused
> >
> > I'm doing a new installation of Hobbit.  I followed the directions
> > from
> > the web and got to "Congratulations, you now have a running Hobbit
> > server!" without problems.
> >
> > Then I added a few clients - the Hobbit server seems to be working
> > fine
> > (immediately as they showed up in the web page http and conn went
> > green)
> > but I cannot seem to get the client installed and working
> > correctly.  I
> > tar-ed and copied the client directory to each client machine,
> > created a
> > hobbit user there and setup the ~hobbit/client/ directory.
> >
> > I can launch the client:
> >
> > runclient.sh start
> >
> > and the client/logs/clientlaunch.log shows it started;  ps -ef shows
> > it's still running - but client/logs/hobbitclient.log is empty
> >
> > I cannot telnet to the clients on port 1984 - so naturally the hobbit
> > server thinks bbd is dead.
> >
> > Do I have to build the hobbit client on all the clients?  Or have I
> > missed something else?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Frank
> >
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