[hobbit] hobbitfetch replacement with ssh

[Stef Coene]

On Tuesday 26 June 2007, Haertig, David F (Dave) wrote:
> Below is what I ended up doing.  It's working like a champ.  It probably
> doesn't fit your environment exactly, but it may be of some help anyway.
>
> My Hobbit server is Linux 2.6, the clients I'm pulling data from are
> Solaris 9.  All running OpenSSH.  The client domains are picked up on
> the Hobbit server via /etc/resolv.conf mechanism.  Hobbit server has
> socks client installed and configured for our environment.  ssh public
> keys were distributed from host to clients so ssh/scp will work without
> passwords being required.
>
> The file "hobbitclient-custom.sh" you see below is nothing more than the
> standard hobbitclient.sh file with some stuff I didn't want stripped
> out.  I modified the LOGFETCHCFG line to point to the "scripts"
> directory rather than the default "tmp" directory because I wanted to
> keep all my customized stuff in that scripts directory.
I was so free to upload the 4 files to my twiki, I hope you don't mine.  This 
is a nice solution to a problem that more then 1 person will encounter:
http://www.docum.org/twiki/bin/view/Hobbit/PullingSshClient


Stef