[hobbit] How do I debug a hobbit client?

Henrik Stoerner henrik at hswn.dk
Thu Jan 4 22:24:26 CET 2007


On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 03:22:24PM -0500, Kauffman, Tom wrote:
> I'm trying to get the hobbit client running on AIX (5.3 TL-02) -- and
> while it starts, and stays up, it's not generating a 'msg.txt' file.
> 
> Here's all I've got in the log:
> 
> 2007-01-04 14:41:32 hobbitlaunch starting
> 2007-01-04 14:41:32 Loading tasklist configuration from
> /usr/local/bbuser/client/etc/clientlaunch.cfg

The client task usually logs to "hobbitclient.log" - anything there?

I seem to recall there was a problem with AIX and netstat reported some
time ago, where the client would hang while running "netstat -an".
Check what processes you have running spawned from hobbitlaunch (if
any).


Henrik




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