[hobbit] RE: [BULK] RE: [hobbit] Newbie Issues

[Rafal Roginela]

Hi,

Been where you are at... Hobbit needs a mail server/client and it does
get set up separately. Most distros (might be helpful if you share which
you are running) install sendmail by default (my centos did) but you do
have to configure it; if yours did not it is usually fairly easy to
install and then google something like: howto setup sendmail and then
kind of piece it together for your environment. Mine was straight
forward for sending and it got a little more complicated for receiving
when I got to acknowledgments via e-mail.

I cheated and changed the permissions on fping so that everyone had
permissions to execute and it fixed all my issues.

I hope it helps and don't give up I love Hobbit and I got to learn a
bunch of Linux stuff that has opened a whole new world of possibilities
even though I still bleed Microsoft blue :-)

BTW something called webmin is a God send to configure anything in linux
for someone who is a newbie like myself.

Thank You,

Rafal Roginela

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-----Original Message-----
From: Goodridge, David [mailto:DGoodridge at somervillema.gov] 
Sent: Wednesday, April 01, 2009 4:23 PM
To: hobbit at hswn.dk
Subject: [hobbit] RE: [BULK] RE: [hobbit] Newbie Issues

OK, so hobbit runs using user 'bb'.

Which fping returns "/usr/local/sbin/fping"
Ls -l `which fping` returns (-rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 73958 Sep 22 2004
/usr/local/sbin/fping)

Is this what you thought??

Why do you think other ping tests seem to work??

Does hobbit install an smtp server or client *OR* is this something
setup separately??

Thanks,
Dave

-----Original Message-----
From: Hubbard, Greg L [mailto:greg.hubbard at eds.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, April 01, 2009 5:02 PM
To: hobbit at hswn.dk
Subject: [BULK] RE: [hobbit] Newbie Issues
Importance: Low

I work mostly with Solaris, so I am not sure what really works on your
Linux system, but...

A) you can maybe run "top" from a terminal and look for processes with
"hobbit" in their name. A similar, more focused method would be to run
"ps -ef | grep hobbit" and see what gets listed.  My *guess* is that a
user called "hobbit" may have created as part of the package
installation?

B) Josh probably meant for you to use the "backticks" instead of double
quotes on the command.  You can do it in two steps by running $ which
fping followed by $ ls -l <whatever which returns> -- the point is to
see if your fping has been setuid to root, which would allow a
non-privileged user to run fping.  Normally Hobbit runs as a
non-privileged user.

I don't know what to say about the mailer issue, other than if this is a
new system someone may have set up a bogus mail forwarder, or it might
be using DNS to find a forwarder for a specific domain.

GLH

-----Original Message-----
From: Goodridge, David [mailto:DGoodridge at somervillema.gov]
Sent: Wednesday, April 01, 2009 3:31 PM
To: hobbit at hswn.dk
Subject: RE: [hobbit] Newbie Issues

Hi Greg,

How do I know if hobbit is using fping??  Root was able to use fping.
Hobbit user can not.  Actually, how do I know what user is for hobbit??

The 216.20.121.4 is not an smtp server and I received a connection
refused.

Ls -l "which fping" <-- says no such file or directory

Thanks,
Dave

-----Original Message-----
From: Hubbard, Greg L [mailto:greg.hubbard at eds.com]
Sent: Wednesday, April 01, 2009 3:47 PM
To: hobbit at hswn.dk
Subject: RE: [hobbit] Newbie Issues

Are you using fping?  Can the hobbit user run fping?  Seems like you
have to do some fiddling because fping requires root, and the symptom is
red connectivity tests for everything in the bb-hosts file.  This is a
dim memory from when I first set up Hobbit several years ago...

GLH 

-----Original Message-----
From: Goodridge, David [mailto:DGoodridge at somervillema.gov]
Sent: Wednesday, April 01, 2009 2:37 PM
To: hobbit at hswn.dk
Subject: RE: [hobbit] Newbie Issues

Hi Josh,

Issue 1 - Now, if I look at status page, the status is red, but I can
ping the ip from the hobbit server

Bb-hosts for this test is as follows:
216.20.63.145  mec-dns1   # NET:brutus
216.20.63.147  mec-dns2   # NET:brutus

Hobbit-alerts.cfg (omitted comments)
---------
$pg-city-email=MAIL
dgoodridge at somervillema.gov,edasilva at somervillema.gov
$pg-sps-email=MAIL sharradan at k12.somerville.ma.us

$IGNPAT=%(annex-nw|gozo|mis-server)
$IGNPAT2=%(annex-nw|gozo|mis-server|sps*|finance)
$SCHOOLS=%(sps|finance)

EXPAGE=sps-servers COLOR=red
	MAIL dgoodridge at somervillema.gov

EXPAGE=sps-servers,achieve
EXHOST=%(svf-nt|svfunix|somerville|spd-mail|spd-main)
EXSERVICE=%(if_stat|http) TIME=12345:0800:17 00 COLOR=red
        SCRIPT /bb/hms/server/ext/page-limit.pl 6175629776 at myairmail.com
	$pg-city-email

PAGE=sps-servers TIME=0123456:0000:2400
	$pg-sps-email

HOST=%(SIS-WEB-01|SIS-DATA-01)
	MAIL
jbreslin at k12.somerville.ma.us,sharradan at k12.somerville.ma.us

Thanks,
Dave

-----Original Message-----
From: Josh Luthman [mailto:josh at imaginenetworksllc.com]
Sent: Wednesday, April 01, 2009 3:25 PM
To: hobbit at hswn.dk
Subject: Re: [hobbit] Newbie Issues

Issue 1 - what is your hobbit-alert.conf

Issue 2 - no hobbit uses the mail command.  Can you give us more detail
as to what the email error is?

On 4/1/09, Goodridge, David <DGoodridge at somervillema.gov> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm new to hobbit and linux so please bear with me.  I've looked at 
> some of the conf files, but can't seem to resolve a couple of issues.
>
> Issue 1 - keep getting critical messages even when status is green on 
> status screen.  Messages come every 5 minutes.
>
> Issue 2 - some messages are not getting thru.  has hobbit installed 
> it's own email server? i've run a mailq command and see a bunch of 
> messages saying "connection refused" to a specific server.  not sure 
> why it's trying to connect to that server.
>
> Thanks,
> Dave
>


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