[hobbit] Ignored PURPLE status update from 127.0.0.1 for <unknown>.unknown

[Henrik Stoerner]

On Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 10:46:34AM -0400, Lee J. Imber wrote:
> 
> When I start hobbit I get a few hundred lines of the following in / 
> var/log/hobbitd.log.
> 
> How do I remove this?
> 
> 
> 2006-06-15 14:45:05 Ignored PURPLE status update from 127.0.0.1 for  <unknown>.unknown

That's odd.

The reason for the message is that Hobbit should never receive a status
message with color PURPLE. The purple status is generated internally by
the hobbitd daemon, so sending an explicit status update with color
purple is not allowed.

The only reason I can think of is that you're running an older version
of the bbgen utility. In the old days, when I was still using the
BB package, purple updates were generated as a result of building
the webpages - so running "bbgen" would trigger a stream of purple 
updates. But that should not happen with the current Hobbit-versions
of bbgen.

The "<unknown>.unknown" means that the host- and testnames don't match
anything Hobbit knows about.

If you cannot figure out where this comes from, you can try running 
hobbitd with the "--trace-all" option; this will cause hobbitd to log
all incoming messages to files in the tmp/ directory. You shouldn't run
with that enabled for very long, obviously.


Regards,
Henrik