[hobbit] Tried to down BOARDBUSY on custom listener startup

[Werner - Google]

Gildas,
Maybe it has something to do with buffering. Did you unbuffer the stdin/out
in your perl script? You can do it by select or using sysread/syswrite
system calls.
-werner

On 3/6/07, Gildas Le Nadan <gn1 at sanger.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> Henrik Stoerner wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 11:19:21AM +0000, Gildas Le Nadan wrote:
> >
> >>I've written a custom perl listener for the client channel.
> >>
> >>It seems to work quite fine when it starts properly, but most of the
> >>time it just sits there receiving no data and there's the message "Tried
> >>to down BOARDBUSY" in the listener logs.
> >>
> >>I suspect this is related to the channel registration :)
> >
> > How are you running your perl program ?
> >
> > You must run it from hobbitlaunch.cfg through a new section like
> >
> > [myclienttool]
> >       ENVFILE /usr/lib/hobbit/server/etc/hobbitserver.cfg
> >       CMD hobbitd_channel --channel=client /usr/local/bin/myclient.pl
> >       LOGFILE $BBSERVERLOGS/myclient.log
> >
> > myclient.pl then receives the client data on <STDIN>
> >
> > For debugging you can run it by hand. You MUST be logged in as the
> > hobbit user, then run
> >     bbcmd hobbitd_channel --channel=client /usr/local/bin/myclient.pl
> >
> >
> > Henrik
>
>
> Ok, my mistake. The message is sent when hobbit is stopped, not started,
> so it is a known issue.
>
> I guess I was just too impatient, as I receive messages after a while.
>
> It seems that there is some kind of buffering on the logs produced by
> the listener when launched through hobbitlaunch.cfg so it delayed the
> messages even more.
>
> Thanks for your help,
> Gildas
>
>
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