[hobbit] Hobbit 4.0 RC4 available

[tlp-hobbit]

 I think purpl-conn is no longer a switch to bbgen but is in the cfg 
file - so remove it

lars ebeling wrote:

> Hi All,
>  
> isn't hobbitd_larrd used or updated?
>  
> Hobbitd gets yellow with this message:
> Latest errormessages:
> Unknown option '--purple-conn=conn' - ignored
> Loading hostnames
> Loading saved state
> Setting up network listener on 0.0.0.0:1984
> Regards
> Lars
>
> */Henrik Stoerner <henrik at hswn.dk>/* wrote:
>
>
>
>     > ----------
>     > Från: Henrik Stoerner[SMTP:HENRIK at HSWN.DK]
>     > Skickat: den 27 februari 2005 18:03:24
>     > Till: hobbit at hswn.dk; hobbit-announce at hswn.dk
>     > Ämne: [hobbit] Hobbit 4.0 RC4 available
>     > Automatiskt vidarebefordrat av en regel
>     >
>     OK, so RC3 was slightly disastrous, and lots of patches have been
>     flying around this past week. So to get everyone aligned on the same
>     code-base, I've packaged up release candidate #4 which you'll find in
>     the usual places: http://sourceforge.net/projects/hobbitmon/ and
>     http://www.hswn.dk/beta/
>
>     This of course fixes the bugs that caused RC3 to crash left and right.
>
>     I also have gone over the alert code again, and now believe that it
>     has reached a state of Nirvana where it is "obviously correct". In
>     other words, alerts should go out as intended; if they don't then
>     add the "--trace=FILENAME" option to hobbitd_alert and let me have the
>     logfile after you've re-created the problem.
>
>     The flickering purples for disabled tests should be a thing of the
>     past.
>
>     Several problems with building on various platforms were resolved.
>     As part of this change, you must re-run the configure script to have
>     it pickup a couple of new settings that have been added.
>
>
>     Along the way, I found out that I'd made a slight error of judgment in
>     choosing the format of the hobbitlaunch.cfg file. So that has changed!
>     If you have modified your hobbitlaunch.cfg - especially if you have
>     deleted or commented out sections - I strongly advise you to copy the
>     new file over from hobbit-4.0-RC4/etcfiles/, or at least look over the
>     differences between that file and your current configuration. "make
>     install" will not overwrite the file, but it might re-add sections
>     that you have removed; instead of removing them or commenting them
>     o ut, add the keyword "DISABLED" to make them permanenly disabled.
>
>     Also, the hobbitserver.cfg file didn't quote the commands added for BB
>     client scripts, resulting in errors being logged by some of the
>     reporting CGI scripts. So copy over the new hobbitserver.cfg file that
>     is generated in hobbitd/etcfiles/ when you build hobbit.
>
>
>     Full list of changes below.
>
>
>     Regards,
>     Henrik
>
>
>
>     Changes from RC-3 -> RC-4
>     -------------------------
>
>     Bugfixes:
>     * Loading the bb-services file no longer causes bbtest-net,
>     hobbitd_larrd et al to crash.
>     * The alert configuration loader was fixed, so that
>     recipient criteria are applied correctly.
>     * hobbitd_alert handling of "recovered" status messages was
>     slightly broken. This was probably the cause of the
>     unexpected "green" alerts that some have reported.
>     * SCRIPT recipients can now have a "@" in their names without
>     being silently treated as MAIL recipients.
>     * An acknowl edge message is now cleared when the status changes
>     to an OK color (defined by the --okcolors option). Previously
>     it would have to go "green" before the ack was cleared.
>     * Acked and disabled statuses can not go purple while the
>     acknowledge or disable is valid. This was causing brief flickers
>     of purple for tests that were disabled for more than 30 minutes.
>     * maint.pl "combo" message support was dropped. This was causing
>     runtime warnings, and it has never been possible to send enable
>     or disable messages inside combo's (neither with Hobbit nor BB).
>
>
>     Building Hobbit:
>     * bb-infocolumn should build without problems again.
>
>     * The "configure" script now also looks in /opt/csw for
>     tools and libraries (for Solaris/x86)
>
>     * An OpenBSD Makefile was contributed.
>
>     * The gcc option "-Wl,--rpath" is now used when linking
>     the tools on Linux and *BSD. This should resolve a lot of
>     the issues with runtime libraries that cannot be found.*
>     * "configure" now looks for your perl utility, and adjusts
>     the maint.pl script accordingly.
>
>     * HP-UX does not have an atoll() routine. So a simple
>     implementation of this routine was added.
>
>
>     Configuration file changes:
>     * hobbitlaunch.cfg now supports a DISABLED keyword to shut
>     off unwanted tasks. This permits upgrading without having
>     to re-disable stuff.
>     * All commands in hobbitserver.cfg are now quoted, so it
>     can be sourced by the CGI scripts without causing errors.
>     Note that this is NOT automatically changed in an existing
>     configuration file.
>
>
>     Improvements:
>     * The detailed status display now lets you define what graphs
>     should be split onto multiple graph images (the "--multigraphs"
>     option for bb-hostsvc.cgi and hobbitd_filestore). Currently
>     the "disk", "inode" and "qtree" graphs are handled this way.
>     * The detailed status display now includes a line showing how
>     long an acknowledgment is valid. This is conf igurable via the
>     ACKUNTILMSG setting in hobbitserver.cfg.
>     * A new "notify" message is supported as part of the Hobbit
>     protocol. This takes a normal hostname+testname paramater,
>     plus a text message; this is sent out as an informational
>     message using the hobbit-alerts.cfg rules to determine recipients.
>     This replaces the BB "notify-admin" recipient with a more
>     fine-grained and configurable system. Currently used by
>     maint.pl when enabling and disabling tests.
>     * Alert scripts now receive a CFID environment variable with the
>     linenumber of the hobbit-alerts.cfg file that caused this
>     alert to go out.
>     * A new tool - hobbit-mailack - was added. If setup to run from
>     e.g. the Hobbit users' .procmailrc file, you can acknowledge
>     alerts by responding to an alert email.
>     * Temperature reports now accept additional text in parenthesis
>     without being confused.
>
>
>     -- 
>     Henrik Storner
>
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