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

[Josh Luthman]

CentOS' sendmail config works out of the box for each of my Hobbit servers.

>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??

Type chmod o+w /usr/sbin/fping then watch your conn tests work.

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On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 10:48 PM, Rafal Roginela <
Rafal.Roginela at americashloans.net> wrote:

> 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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