Re: [hobbit] on-going snapshot issue

[henrik (at) hswn.dk (Henrik Stoerner)]

On Wed, Sep 12, 2007 at 12:56:01PM +0000, Gore, David W (David) wrote:
> Since my other issues with 4.2.0/allinone did not get any respones,
> please let me know if there is going to be a way to turn OFF
> descriptions in bb2.html in the snapshot?  Time is short and it is very
> tedious to compile a new snapshot daily hoping it is changed.  I did
> look through the documentation, the first time it appeared, and I
> couldn't find anything

Apply this patch, and run bbgen with the "--tooltips=always" option.
The patch will be included in the next snapshot (generated in a couple
of hours).

> If it wasn't for 'Whoops ! bb failed to send message - timeout', stale
> alerts, and hung memory segments and semaphores I would just wait until
> the first pre-release or full release.  Pease help. 

These are related, I think. It sounds like your hobbitd process is
crashing from time to time.


Henrik

--- bbdisplay/bbgen.1	2006/08/09 19:49:45	1.98
+++ bbdisplay/bbgen.1	2007/09/12 19:37:16
@@ -160,6 +160,15 @@
 .sp
 .IP "--reverseskin=URL"
 Same as "--dialupskin", but for reverse tests (tests with '!' in front).
+.sp
+.IP "--tooltips=[always,never,main]"
+Determines which pages use tooltips to show the description of the host 
+(from the COMMENT entry in the
+.I bb-hosts(5)
+file). If set to \fBalways\fR, tooltips are used on all pages. If set to 
+\fBnever\fR, tooltips are never used. If set to \fBmain\fR, tooltips are
+used on the main pages, but not on the BB2 (all non-green) or NK (critical
+systems) pages.
 
 .SH COLUMN SELECTION OPTIONS
 These options affect which columns (tests) are included in the webpages
--- bbdisplay/bbgen.c	2007/09/11 21:20:54	1.229
+++ bbdisplay/bbgen.c	2007/09/12 19:32:50
@@ -51,6 +51,7 @@
 double		reportgreenlevel = 99.995;
 int		reportstyle = STYLE_CRIT;
 int		dynamicreport = 1;
+enum tooltipuse_t tooltipuse = TT_BBONLY;
 
 char *reqenv[] = {
 "BB",
@@ -412,6 +413,14 @@
 			select_headers_and_footers(lp);
 		}
 
+		else if (argnmatch(argv[i], "--tooltips=")) {
+			char *lp = strchr(argv[i], '=');
+			lp++;
+			if (strcmp(lp, "always") == 0) tooltipuse = TT_ALWAYS;
+			else if (strcmp(lp, "never") == 0) tooltipuse = TT_NEVER;
+			else tooltipuse = TT_BBONLY;
+		}
+
 		else if (argnmatch(argv[i], "--purplelog=")) {
 			char *lp = strchr(argv[i], '=');
 			if (*(lp+1) == '/') purplelogfn = strdup(lp+1);
--- bbdisplay/bbgen.h	2007/02/13 12:25:37	1.130
+++ bbdisplay/bbgen.h	2007/09/12 19:30:44
@@ -218,6 +218,9 @@
 	struct dispsummary_t	*next;
 } dispsummary_t;
 
+enum tooltipuse_t { TT_BBONLY, TT_ALWAYS, TT_NEVER};
+
+extern enum tooltipuse_t tooltipuse;
 extern bbgen_page_t	*pagehead;
 extern state_t		*statehead;
 extern bbgen_col_t	*colhead, null_column;
--- bbdisplay/pagegen.c	2007/08/15 06:47:18	1.189
+++ bbdisplay/pagegen.c	2007/09/12 19:27:16
@@ -338,12 +338,19 @@
 	int	columncount;
 	char	*bbskin;
 	int	rowcount = 0;
+	int     usetooltip = 0;
 
 	if (head == NULL)
 		return;
 
 	bbskin = strdup(xgetenv("BBSKIN"));
 
+	switch (tooltipuse) {
+	  case TT_BBONLY: usetooltip = (pagetype == PAGE_BB); break;
+	  case TT_ALWAYS: usetooltip = 1; break;
+	  case TT_NEVER:  usetooltip = 0; break;
+	}
+
 	/* Generate static or dynamic links (from BBLOGSTATUS) ? */
 	genstatic = generate_static();