two ack questions

[Sean R. Clark]

First - what does a -1 mean for acktime,disabletime, and cookie mean when I
run hobbitdboard?

I see that they(-1) are valid from the man page, but I can't seem to find
what they mean...


Second - what would cause an alert to go out the hobbitdalert channel but
not have a valid ack code?


I got this today:

Subject: Hobbit [0] hostname-swt09a-02.domain.com:if_stat CRITICAL (RED)
(body) red Mon May 14 13:15:18 2007
	  results of test bleh  bleh




Is that normal not to have an ackcode? And if not, how can I track down why
it is ?


-Sean