[hobbit] Hobbit client strange behavior

[Larry.Barber at usda.gov]

This behavior is usually caused by the host names not agreeing between
the hobbit client and server. The hobbit client uses the return from
'uname -n' for the name it reports to the server. If this doesn't match
whats in bb-hosts, hobbitd will just discard the message.

Thanks,
Larry Barber


On Fri, 2005-09-02 at 07:46 -0500, Allan.Marillier at dana.com wrote:
> 
> I have a strange problem with some clients, I would appreciate any
> suggestions if anyone has seen it or can give any ideas about the
> problem. I have a number of servers running RedHat AS 2.1, RedHat AS
> 3, and Fedora with my hobbit server on Fedora Core 4. I built the
> client on one AS 2.1 server, then created a tarball and copied all
> files over to all other AS 2.1 servers. More than half work with no
> problem, reporting memory, CPU, disk etc, but some don't report
> anything. I stopped the client and removed all files, then rebuilt the
> client using ./configure --client; make; make install  which worked
> with no errors. I see no errors in my hobbit server logs, and I can
> telnet from the clients to the server on port 1984 with no problem. 
> 
> The hobbit client seems to be running properly, and I don't see
> anything unusual in the logs. 
> 
> # ps -elf | grep hobbit 
> 040 S hobbit   25382     1  0  75   0    -   363 schedu Aug31 ?
>  00:00:00 /home/hobbit/client/bin/hobbitlaunch
> --config=/home/hobbit/client/etc/clientlaun 
> 000 S hobbit   28365     1  0  85   5    -   561 wait4  08:37 ?
>  00:00:00 sh -c vmstat 300 2
> 1>/home/hobbit/client/tmp/hobbit_vmstat.28352 2>&1; mv /home/ 
> 000 S hobbit   28368 28365  0  82   5    -   363 schedu 08:37 ?
>  00:00:00 vmstat 300 2 
> 000 S root     28925 28788  0  76   0    -   436 pipe_w 08:41 pts/0
>  00:00:00 grep hobbit 
> 
> # pwd 
> /home/hobbit/client/logs 
> 
> # ls -al 
> total 2 
> -rw-rw-r--    1 hobbit   hobbit        139 Aug 31 12:31
> clientlaunch.log 
> -rw-rw-r--    1 hobbit   hobbit          6 Aug 31 12:31
> clientlaunch.pid 
> -rw-rw-r--    1 hobbit   hobbit          0 Aug 31 12:31
> hobbitclient.log 
> 
> # cat clientlaunch.log 
> 2005-08-31 12:31:45 hobbitlaunch starting 
> 2005-08-31 12:31:45 Loading tasklist configuration
> from /home/hobbit/client/etc/clientlaunch.cfg