Re: [hobbit] how to get dnsreg to work .. ?

["meepmeep @ Fantasya.org" <meepmeep (at) fantasya.org>]

Thank you, it works great :)

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Nicolas G. / meepmeep



On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 7:08 PM, Ralph Mitchell <ralphmitchell (at) gmail.com>wrote:

> I see a couple of things that could be wrong.  Possibly you should be doing
> "DOMAIN=$2" in the loop??  $1 is the ip address, $2 is the fully-qualified
> hostname.  It seemed to work just fine when I replaced the bbhostgrep line
> with
>
>      echo "yahoo.com" | while read L
>
> Definitely you should be converting the dots in $DOMAIN to commas.  See the
> second paragraph under "XYMON MESSAGE SYNTAX" in the bb.1 manpage.  This
> would do it:
>
>    DOM=`echo $DOMAIN | sed -e 's/\./,/g'`
>    echo $BB $BBDISP "status+12h $DOM.dnsreg $COLOR `date`
>
> You can test your script using bbcmd:
>
>    server/bin/bbcmd  server/ext/dnsreg
>
> That kicks off the script with the same environment that Xymon gives it.
>  You probably want to put a  'set -x' in at the top, to see everything
> that's going on.  I generally put an "echo" in front of the $BB line when
> testing, to minimize the amount of bogus reports going to the server.
>
> Ralph Mitchell
>
>