Need help on "Bad timespec (missing colon or wrong weekdays):" error message

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

My hobbit server is suffering following error message in page.log file.

1. Current error messages in page.log, not like the other problem on this list,
I don't have anything after ":" character to help me debug.

hobbit$ tail page.log
2009-06-04 22:22:28 Bad timespec (missing colon or wrong weekdays):
2009-06-04 22:22:28 Bad timespec (missing colon or wrong weekdays):
2009-06-04 22:22:28 Bad timespec (missing colon or wrong weekdays):
2009-06-04 22:22:28 Bad timespec (missing colon or wrong weekdays):
2009-06-04 22:22:28 Bad timespec (missing colon or wrong weekdays):
2009-06-04 22:22:28 Bad timespec (missing colon or wrong weekdays):
2009-06-04 22:22:28 Bad timespec (missing colon or wrong weekdays):
2009-06-04 22:22:28 Bad timespec (missing colon or wrong weekdays):
2009-06-04 22:22:28 Bad timespec (missing colon or wrong weekdays):
2009-06-04 22:22:28 Bad timespec (missing colon or wrong weekdays):
hobbit$

2. After RTFM, Following is an expanded debug log after I added "--debug" at page daemon in hobbitlaunch.cfg.
(11 days ago)

2.1 in following log, do this mean the tsail-c's TIME=W:0080:1800 macro has syntax issue ?


2009-05-22 23:59:16 cleanup_alert called for host tsail-c.test.com, test memory
2009-05-22 23:59:16 Found a first matching rule
2009-05-22 23:59:16 Bad timespec (missing colon or wrong weekdays):
2009-05-22 23:59:16 Weekday does not match
2009-05-22 23:59:16 No more secondary matching rule
2009-05-22 23:59:16 Found no first matching rule
2009-05-22 23:59:16 cleanup_alert called for host turn50.test.com, test conn

2.2 following are more clueless  error, it didn't show any host information
and it says "00:01:34 Found a first matching rule" and then "00:01:34 Bad timespec (missing colon or wrong weekdays):"



2009-05-23 00:01:34 Weekday does not match
2009-05-23 00:01:34 No more secondary matching rule
2009-05-23 00:01:34 Found a first matching rule
2009-05-23 00:01:34 Weekday does not match
2009-05-23 00:01:34 No more secondary matching rule
2009-05-23 00:01:34 Found a first matching rule
2009-05-23 00:01:34 Weekday does not match
2009-05-23 00:01:34 Found a secondary matching rule
2009-05-23 00:01:34 Found a first matching rule
2009-05-23 00:01:34 Weekday does not match
2009-05-23 00:01:34 Found a secondary matching rule
2009-05-23 00:01:34 Found a first matching rule
2009-05-23 00:01:34 Found a first matching rule
2009-05-23 00:01:34 Found a first matching rule
2009-05-23 00:01:34 Found a first matching rule
2009-05-23 00:01:34 start,end,current time = 0, 1439, 1 - found=1
2009-05-23 00:01:34 No more secondary matching rule
2009-05-23 00:01:34 Found a first matching rule
2009-05-23 00:01:34 Bad timespec (missing colon or wrong weekdays):
2009-05-23 00:01:34 Weekday does not match
2009-05-23 00:01:34 No more secondary matching rule
2009-05-23 00:01:34 Found a first matching rule
2009-05-23 00:01:34 Found a first matching rule
2009-05-23 00:01:34 Found a first matching rule
2009-05-23 00:01:34 Bad timespec (missing colon or wrong weekdays):
2009-05-23 00:01:34 Weekday does not match
2009-05-23 00:01:34 No more secondary matching rule
2009-05-23 00:01:34 Found a first matching rule
2009-05-23 00:01:34 Weekday does not match
2009-05-23 00:01:34 No more secondary matching rule
2009-05-23 00:01:34 Found a first matching rule
2009-05-23 00:01:34 start,end,current time = 0, 1439, 1 - found=1
2009-05-23 00:01:34 Found a first matching rule
2009-05-23 00:01:34 Weekday does not match
2009-05-23 00:01:34 No more secondary matching rule


3. I tried commented out all the "DOWNTIME" entries in bb-hosts* files, but "Bad timespec ..."
still keep spitting into page.log.


4. Seems to me both DOWNTIME(bb-host*) and TIME (in hobbit-alerts.cfg*) both generate same kind of error message.


T.J. Yang


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