[hobbit] acks through email

[kevin grady]

Ok, after walking away for a while I apologize for wasting people's
time. I was missing defs for SED, AWK, etc.

Works like a champ now


On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 00:02:57 +0100, Henrik Stoerner <henrik at hswn.dk> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 05:43:22PM -0500, kevin grady wrote:
> > So looking at the format of bb alert messages the subject line is:
> >
> > !BB - 2827410! prodsqlclstr1.prod.smartbargains.com.sql-server -
> > 999010100001240
> >
> > Where in hobbit without bb the subject line format is:
> >
> > BB [770509] vicious.smartbargains.com:ftp is RED
> >
> > Is there a way to modify the subject line format in hobbit to match bb
> > the bb format or does bb-mailack.sh need some mods for this to work?
> 
> It shouldn't matter. bb-mailack does some processing to filter out the
> "fluff" in a mail message, and picks up all of the data it needs from
> the subject line - regardless of whether it is in BB or Hobbit format.
> 
> I'd start the troubleshooting by adding a line or two to echo the
> data bb-mailack sends to Hobbit. Just before the line
>   $BB $BBPAGE "ack ack_event ${NUMBER} ${DELAY} ${MESSAGE}"
> could you add this:
>   echo "ack ack_event ${NUMBER} ${DELAY} ${MESSAGE}"  >>/tmp/mailack.log
> 
> Then do a couple of mail-ack's and check out what's in the log file.
> My first suspicion is that the ack-number is wrong, since that will
> mean that Hobbit silently discards the ack-message.
> 
> 
> Henrik
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