No, I haven't patched at all.  I don't see any patches at 
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=128058.
Perhaps worth mentioning - the hist directory appears to have events 
generated at first run, but never thereafter (other than the 
"allevents" file).
[root (at) zzzz hist]# pwd
/usr/local/hobbit/data/hist
[root (at) zzzz hist]# ll
total 60
-rw-rw-r-- 1 hobbit hobbit 1180 Nov  6 04:22 allevents
-rw-rw-r-- 1 hobbit hobbit  780 Nov  6 04:22 zzzz.yyyyyyyyy.com 
<http://zzzz.yyyyyyyyy.com>
-rw-rw-r-- 1 hobbit hobbit   41 Nov  5 08:56 zzzz,yyyyyyyyy,com.bbd
-rw-rw-r-- 1 hobbit hobbit   87 Nov  5 08:57 zzzz,yyyyyyyyy,com.bbgen
-rw-rw-r-- 1 hobbit hobbit   41 Nov  5 08:56 zzzz,yyyyyyyyy,com.bbtest
-rw-rw-r-- 1 hobbit hobbit   41 Nov  5 08:56 zzzz,yyyyyyyyy,com.conn
-rw-rw-r-- 1 hobbit hobbit   41 Nov  5 08:57 zzzz,yyyyyyyyy,com.cpu
-rw-rw-r-- 1 hobbit hobbit   41 Nov  5 08:57 zzzz,yyyyyyyyy,com.disk
-rw-rw-r-- 1 hobbit hobbit   41 Nov  5 08:57 zzzz,yyyyyyyyy,com.files
-rw-rw-r-- 1 hobbit hobbit  276 Nov  6 04:22 zzzz,yyyyyyyyy,com.hobbitd
-rw-rw-r-- 1 hobbit hobbit   41 Nov  5 08:56 zzzz,yyyyyyyyy,com.http
-rw-rw-r-- 1 hobbit hobbit   41 Nov  5 08:57 zzzz,yyyyyyyyy,com.memory
-rw-rw-r-- 1 hobbit hobbit   87 Nov  5 09:02 zzzz,yyyyyyyyy,com.msgs
-rw-rw-r-- 1 hobbit hobbit   41 Nov  5 08:57 zzzz,yyyyyyyyy,com.ports
-rw-rw-r-- 1 hobbit hobbit   41 Nov  5 08:57 zzzz,yyyyyyyyy,com.procs