[hobbit] Invalid client message

Henrik Stoerner henrik at hswn.dk
Tue Apr 25 11:50:43 CEST 2006


On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 04:50:05AM -0400, Asif Iqbal wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 07:49:08AM, Henrik Storner wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 05:39:54PM -0400, Asif Iqbal wrote:
> > > 
> > > Latest errormessages:
> > > Invalid client message from 2.3.0.5 - blank hostname
> > > 
> > > where 2.3.0.5 is the hobbit server.
> > 
> > What's the first line of your ~hobbit/client/tmp/msg.txt file?
> 
> client .solaris
> 
> What should it say? And how do I go by fixing it? My `uname -n' for the
> hobbit server matches the entry in bb-hosts file

It should say "client your,host,name.solaris"

Hmm... I think this is a bug in the way the client environment is
setup. The quick fix is to add a MACHINE setting to the
~hobbit/client/etc/hobbitclient.cfg file with

   MACHINE="your,host,name"


Henrik




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