[hobbit] Re: hobbitd_rrd not starting an extra script

[Rich Smrcina]

Equal signs, indeed.  Nice catch!

As far as submitting fixes, if they're not too big I might suggest just 
posting them to the list.  If folks are interested in it, they can try 
it out and give you feedback.

Graham Nayler wrote:
> Sébastien
> 
> I think this one is pretty simple - ready to kick yourself? Try putting 
> "=" (without quotes) instead of the blank after --extra-script and 
> --extra-tests!
> 
> Once that's done though you may hit another problem, over which I've 
> been tearing my hair out for the last week. I got the graphs connected 
> up OK, but values were only being written into it very intermittently. 
> I've finally tracking it down to a bug in the external script handler 
> do_external.c (at least in the version we're running - snapshot as of 
> 9th Sept). This does not apply to 4.2.0 - but we had troubles getting 
> that to work with BBWin (we're monitoring Windows boxes).
> 
> The problem is that recent versions of hobbit caches writes to RRD, but 
> the external script is handled by a forked process, which only operates 
> on a copy of the cache controller, and not that of the main process. 
> I'll submit my fix (albeit crude) when I've worked out haw to do so (I'm 
> really new to this open source stuff)!,
> 
> Graham Nayler

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