[hobbit] Couple questions on hobbit functionality

Henrik Stoerner henrik at hswn.dk
Wed Oct 5 22:09:57 CEST 2005


On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 01:52:06PM -0400, Lee J. Imber wrote:
> 
> I have a few questions on the how much I can tweak the configs.
> 
> [bbretest]
>         ENVFILE /usr/home/lee/Hobbit/server/etc/hobbitserver.cfg
>         NEEDS hobbitd
>         CMD $BBHOME/ext/bbretest-net.sh
>         LOGFILE $BBSERVERLOGS/bb-retest.log
>         INTERVAL 1m
> 
> Can I make the Interval <1m like 10seconds 10s?

If you just write a number (no "s"), it will be treated as 
seconds. I believe there's a built-in limit of minimum 
5 seconds before two successive runs of the same taks.

> Also, I want to test services through a ssh tunnel.
> Can I have bb-hosts file to test ssh on localhost port 2222?
> 
> 127.0.0.1 foo.bar.com    # BBDISPLAY
> 127.0.0.1 remote.machine.com # ssh:2222
> 
> Something like that?

Yep, just like that.


Oh - and both settings are described in the man-pages ...


Henrik




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