RE: [hobbit] Version of Hobbit y'all use?

["T.J. Yang" <tj_yang (at) hotmail.com>]

T.J. Yang

> Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 21:20:28 -0700
> From: tleavitt (at) unameits.com
> To: hobbit (at) hswn.dk
> Subject: RE: [hobbit] Version of Hobbit y'all use?
> 
> I was able to resolve the /var/log/messages issue by following the
> instructions (with slight modifications) in the System Monitoring With
> Hobbit wikibook. My Hobbit is now happily reporting green (correctly)
> and clear (correctly) depending on the file being monitored.
> 
> Now I simply have to figure out what I want it to monitor in that file,
> and if there are other files I want to monitor as well. :)

Should be a hobbit wiki faq/howto already.
if not, please create the question and I will provide answer/procedure.
(got to drag more people into hobbit wiki edit ;)

tj
> Thomas
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Galen Johnson [mailto:Galen.Johnson (at) sas.com] 
> Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 10:14 PM
> To: hobbit (at) hswn.dk
> Subject: RE: [hobbit] Version of Hobbit y'all use?
> 
> in sudoers, add a line like:
> 
> hobbituser ALL=(root) NOPASSWD: /path/to/fping
> 
> or even easier, change fping to setuid root (chown root /path/to/fping;
> chmod 4755 /path/to/fping)
> 
> 
> =G=
> 
> ________________________________________
> From: Josh Luthman [josh (at) imaginenetworksllc.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 12:15 AM
> To: hobbit (at) hswn.dk
> Subject: Re: [hobbit] Version of Hobbit y'all use?
> 
> I am using 4.2.0 stable, no patches for the office network and 4.2.0
> all-in-one patch at home.
> 
> Here's what other people are using:
> http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/The_hobbit_Users_list
> 
> On both my servers I got complaints about /var/log/messages not being
> readable (red, IIRC).  Can't explain why it didn't complain for you,
> sorry.
> 
> I don't use sudo but I believe if you simply give the permissions of the
> "hobbit user" to read/execute /usr/sbin/fping you shouldn't have to
> worry about sudo when executing the command via Hobbitmon.
> 
> Josh Luthman
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> 
> On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 12:11 AM, Thomas Leavitt
> <tleavitt (at) unameits.com<mailto:tleavitt (at) unameits.com>> wrote:
> 
> Do y'all typically run the "stable" version of Hobbit, 4.2.0, downloaded
> from SourceForge, or do many of you run a more recent version?
> 
> 
> 
> I noticed that a permission failure on /var/log/messages doesn't produce
> a "yellow" on my version.
> 
> 
> 
> Anyone have proper SUDO settings that enable the hobbit server to run
> fping with no password, and the hobbit clients to read a root only
> readable /var/log/messages? Can you just run "fping" without putting
> "sudo" in front of the command, if you've got the proper settings  in
> /etc/sudoers?
> 
> 
> 
> Thomas
> 
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