[hobbit] msgs on kern.log don't go away

[Ricardo Alberto Schutz]

Yeah! Thank you...

I think I ran hobbit with root privileges at the first time. Maybe it 
changed the file permissions.
Working fine now.

Thanks.

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White, Bruce wrote:
> I have had this problem when one of the temp files on the client in
> client/tmp was created by root when I tried starting the client with root.
> The tmp file can not be removed by the hobbit user, so the status on the
> messages file never changes and the messages continue to stay red.  Once I
> deleted this tmp file and allowed the hobbit user to create the temp files
> it needs under its ID, the problem went away.
>
>      .....Bruce
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ricardo Alberto Schutz [mailto:ricardo at redix.com.br] 
> Sent: Monday, May 19, 2008 10:08 AM
> To: hobbit at hswn.dk
> Subject: [hobbit] msgs on kern.log don't go away
>
> Hi,
>
> When a host is restarted, I get messages on kern.log showing infos about 
> the disc arrays. Ok, nothing wrong with that. The thing is that the 
> messages don't go away. Right now the msgs column is red and the 
> information is from May 2. So it's red since then.
>
> What I could understand is that hobbit uses logfetch with a 
> configuration file to locate where in the log files it should look. I 
> tried to remove the file used by logfetch on the client and restarted 
> the client a few times. Hobbit recreated the file, but no success.
>
> It's running on a RHEL 4. Hobbit client installed from source.
>
>