[hobbit] 1984 - Connection refused

[Xymon User in Richmond]

On Wed, June 10, 2009 11:54, Lennart Andersen wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Could someone tell me why this is happening?
>
> 2009-06-10 13:26:46 Could not connect to bbd at 10.180.224.59:1984 -
> Connection refused
> 2009-06-10 13:26:46 Whoops ! bb failed to send message - Connection failed
> 2009-06-10 13:31:47 Could not connect to bbd at 10.180.224.59:1984 -
> Connection refused
> 2009-06-10 13:31:47 Whoops ! bb failed to send message - Connection failed
> 2009-06-10 13:36:48 Could not connect to bbd at 10.180.224.59:1984 -
> Connection refused
> 2009-06-10 13:36:48 Whoops ! bb failed to send message - Connection failed
> 2009-06-10 13:41:48 Could not connect to bbd at 10.180.224.59:1984 -
> Connection refused
> 2009-06-10 13:41:48 Whoops ! bb failed to send message - Connection failed
>

That can happen if hobbit is bumping up against ulimit.  A socket is a file.

> logs$ telnet 10.180.224.59 1984
> Trying 10.180.224.59...
> Connected to 10.180.224.59.
> Escape character is '^]'.

You're not in the same ulimit context as the hobbit client process.

>
> When the hobbit server is on port 1984;
>
> sage:~# lsof | grep 1984
> hobbitd   21404   hobbit    3u     IPv4     132856                TCP
> *:1984 (LISTEN)
>