[hobbit] acks through email

Asif Iqbal iqbala-hobbit at qwestip.net
Tue Feb 22 20:16:37 CET 2005


On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 02:10:14PM, kevin grady wrote:
> When I reply to an alert, I get a message stating that bb-mailack.sh
> can not find bbdef.sh. Is there an equivelent file for hobbit? This is
> a clean install of hobbit 4.0RC2 no bb.

I would recommend to put this at the beginning of your script

[ -f /export/home/hobbit/server/etc/hobbitserver.cfg ] || exit 99
. /export/home/hobbit/server/etc/hobbitserver.cfg

And get rid of this

if [ -d "$BBHOME" ]
then
        . $BBHOME/etc/bbdef.sh

And the corresponding "else" and "fi"


> 
> Thanks
> 
> 
> On Sat, 19 Feb 2005 22:36:06 +0100, Henrik Stoerner <henrik at hswn.dk> wrote:
> > On Sat, Feb 19, 2005 at 01:46:50PM -0500, Asif Iqbal wrote:
> > > On Sat, Feb 19, 2005 at 10:54:30AM, Kevin Grady wrote:
> > > > Does hobbit support acks through email? Thanks
> > >
> > > I am using it. You should be able to use the same shell script that was
> > > in Bigbrother.
> > >
> > > The only thing different is the following line in shell script
> > >
> > > Bigbrother: $BB $BBPAGE "ack ack_event ${ACKCODE} ${DELAY} ${MESSAGE}"
> > >
> > > Hobbit: $BB $BBPAGE "hobbitdack ${ACKCODE} ${DELAY} ${MESSAGE}"
> > 
> > Actually, it should work even without this change. The "ack ack_event"
> > command is recognized by hobbitd. I didn't see any reason why I should
> > break existing scripts, when it was so simple to just make it work.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Henrik
> 

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