[hobbit] problem with CLASS definition

Charles Jones jonescr at cisco.com
Wed Oct 10 20:00:40 CEST 2007


Anyone have any thoughts on this? I'm currently dead in the water 
without this working as it should.  I tried emailing Henrik as well but 
I'm sure he is too busy to reply.

-Charles

Charles Jones wrote:
> I have a host whose client was started via: "./runclient.sh 
> --class=APP_PRIMARY start"
>
> In the hobbit servers hobbit-clients.cfg, I have something similar to:
>
> CLASS=APP_PRIMARY
>    PROC "someproc"
>    PROC "/some/other/proc"
> ....
> DEFAULT
>    PROC sshd
>
> The problem is that only the default proc "sshd" is being checked on 
> the host.  The expected behavior is that the CLASS would be used and 
> other other procs checked instead. I know this has nothing to do with 
> the DEFAULT setting, as using HOST=hostname works fine. I just cant 
> get it to check the procs by CLASS.  Is there any way to debug this?  
> Shouldn't the CLASS show up in the "info" section?  Do I need to put 
> the class name in quotes on the command line?



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