[hobbit] Dependancy question

Rich Smrcina rsmrcina at wi.rr.com
Mon May 28 17:37:14 CEST 2007


Tom,

Unfortunately the depends directive isn't functioning as documented. 
Take a look at the router directive instead.  It isn't quite as 
flexible, but should work in your case.

Tom Diehl wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am having a problem getting dependencies working. According to the 
> bb-hosts
> man page I should be able to do something like the following:
> 
> depends=(conn:cr-sw-510-01/conn)
> 
> If I understand the man page correctly the above should say that for the
> current host the connection service depends on being able to connect to
> the cr-sw-510-01. IOW we should be able to ping the cr-sw-510-01 device.
> 
> The problem is that if I do the above, I still get the connections turning
> red and as a result all of the alerts that go with it.
> 
> Can someone please tell me what I am missing?
> 
> Regards,
> 

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