Repeat: Client test problems on Xymon server 4.2.3

[Ryan Novosielski <novosirj (at) umdnj.edu>]

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I had posted a message on this before and never really got anywhere with
it. I just re-read all of the replies from last time and none of them
really gave me anything to go on (they say look at logs, but none end up
being created).

First off, here is the section that starts the Xymon client from within
the Xymon server's hobbitlaunch.cfg:

# "hobbitclient" runs the Xymon client. The client is installed
automatically
# when you install a Xymon server (presumably, you do want to monitor the
# Xymon server ?), but there's no need to have two hobbitlaunch instances
# running at the same time. So we'll just run it from here.
# Note: If you are using another client package, you should disable this
one.

[hobbitclient]
        ENVFILE /opt/xymon-4.2.3/client/etc/hobbitclient.cfg
        NEEDS hobbitd
        CMD /opt/xymon-4.2.3/client/bin/hobbitclient.sh
        LOGFILE $BBSERVERLOGS/hobbitclient.log
        INTERVAL 5m

I checked to see where this LOGFILE is supposed to be going:
BBSERVERLOGS="/opt/xymon-4.2.3/log"

So I looked in there:

> ls -la /opt/xymon-4.2.3/log/
total 3228
drwxr-xr-x   2 xymon    daemon       512 Jan 13 15:48 .
drwxr-xr-x   9 root     root         512 Sep 16  2009 ..
- -rw-r--r--   1 xymon    daemon   1550037 Dec 23 15:47 bb-network.log
- -rw-r--r--   1 xymon    daemon     74080 Jul 26 16:39 bb-retest.log
- -rw-r--r--   1 xymon    daemon      9314 Jan 13 15:48 hobbitlaunch.log
- -rw-r--r--   1 xymon    daemon         5 Jan 13 15:48 hobbitlaunch.pid

No such file. So I checked the hobbitlaunch.log sitting here:

2011-01-13 15:48:06 hobbitlaunch starting
2011-01-13 15:48:06 Loading tasklist configuration from
/opt/xymon-4.2.3/server/etc/hobbitlaunch.cfg

That file exists, as I copied the above [hobbitclient] section out of
t.The last thing I can think of is that maybe $BBSERVERLOGS is not
defined in the context in which it is needed. Beyond that, I'm totally
out of ideas. It appears as if this section is completely ignored. On
both of my machines, if I don't start the client (by changing to the
client directory and doing ./runclient.sh start), it doesn't get started.

Any clues?

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