[hobbit] problem with CLASS definition (PATCH)

Charles Jones jonescr at cisco.com
Wed Oct 31 21:30:31 CET 2007


Thanks for the info Josh. Is that the official place we are supposed to 
report bugs and submit patches? Since I see open bugs there that are 
literally years old, and assigned to "nobody", I'm not that confident 
that's the proper place.

-Charles

Josh Luthman wrote:
> *Psst*
>
> http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=128058&atid=710488 
> <http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=128058&atid=710488>
>
> On 10/31/07, * Charles Jones* <jonescr at cisco.com 
> <mailto:jonescr at cisco.com>> wrote:
>
>     I don't want this to fall through the cracks, so I'm going to keep
>     bumping it until Henrik sees it :)
>
>     -Charles
>
>     Charles Jones wrote:
>     > Henrik,
>     >
>     > Just making sure that you saw this bug that I found, and hopefully
>     > implement a fix (I'm sure you have a more elegant way to fix it
>     than I
>     > did) for Hobbit 4.3
>     > -Charles
>     >
>     > Charles Jones wrote:
>     >> Okay I came up with a workaround. The problem is that CONFIGCLASS
>     >> gets reset to a default value (in hobbitclient.cfg). So, I created
>     >> another variable, "CLASS". I then made a small mod to
>     hobbitclient.sh
>     >> that checks to see if CLASS got set to something, and if it
>     did, it
>     >> sets CONFIGCLASS to that value.  Here are the changes:
>     >>
>     >> --- runclient.sh        2006-08-09 20:09:58.000000000 +0000
>     >> +++ /tmp/runclient.sh   2007-10-10 18:55:00.000000000 +0000
>     >> @@ -32,6 +32,7 @@
>     >>                ;;
>     >>          --class=*)
>     >>                CONFIGCLASS="`echo $1 | sed -e 's/--class=//' | tr
>     >> '[A-Z]' '[a-z]'`"
>     >> +                CLASS=$CONFIGCLASS # Use a variable that
>     doesn't get
>     >> reset
>     >>                ;;
>     >>          --help)
>     >>                echo "Usage: $0 [--hostname=CLIENTNAME]
>     >> [--os=rhel3|linux22] [--class=CLASSNAME] start|stop
>     >> "
>     >> @@ -61,7 +62,7 @@
>     >>
>     >> MACHINE="`echo $MACHINEDOTS | sed -e 's/\./,/g'`"
>     >>
>     >> -export MACHINE MACHINEDOTS BBOSTYPE BBOSSCRIPT HOBBITCLIENTHOME
>     >> CONFIGCLASS
>     >> +export MACHINE MACHINEDOTS BBOSTYPE BBOSSCRIPT HOBBITCLIENTHOME
>     >> CONFIGCLASS CLASS
>     >>
>     >> case "$CMD" in
>     >>   "start")
>     >> @@ -128,6 +129,5 @@
>     >>        break;
>     >>
>     >> esac
>     >> -
>     >> exit 0
>     >>
>     >> -----
>     >>
>     >> --- hobbitclient.sh      2006-08-09 20:09:58.000000000 +0000
>     >> +++ /tmp/hobbitclient.sh        2007-10-10 18:55:28.000000000 +0000
>     >> @@ -48,6 +48,9 @@
>     >>        echo "@@client#1|0|127.0.0.1|$MACHINEDOTS|$BBOSTYPE" >>
>     >> $MSGTMPFILE
>     >> fi
>     >>
>     >> +if [ -n "$CLASS" ]; then #If CLASS was set to something, override
>     >> the default
>     >> +   CONFIGCLASS=$CLASS
>     >> +fi
>     >> echo "client $MACHINE.$BBOSTYPE $CONFIGCLASS"  >>  $MSGTMPFILE
>     >> $BBHOME/bin/$BBOSSCRIPT >> $MSGTMPFILE
>     >> # logfiles
>     >>
>     >>
>     >>
>     >> Charles Jones wrote:
>     >>> I also just discovered that CONFIGCLASS gets converted to
>     lowercase
>     >>> (which I should have seen plain as day in the sed command).
>     However
>     >>> this is not the problem as the CONFIGCLASS in the client
>     message is
>     >>> still using the default value of BBOSTYPE.  I'm currently
>     attempting
>     >>> to hack in a work around.
>     >>>
>     >>> -Charles
>     >>>
>     >>> Charles Jones wrote:
>     >>>> I did some poking around, and as far as I can tell, the
>     problem is
>     >>>> due to hobbitclient.cfg overriding the CONFIGCLASS variable.
>     >>>> Here are some snippets from runclient.sh:
>     >>>>
>     >>>> --class=*)
>     >>>>                CONFIGCLASS="`echo $1 | sed -e 's/--class=//'
>     | tr
>     >>>> '[A-Z]' '[a-z]'`"
>     >>>>
>     >>>> export MACHINE MACHINEDOTS BBOSTYPE BBOSSCRIPT HOBBITCLIENTHOME
>     >>>> CONFIGCLASS
>     >>>>
>     >>>> hobbitclient.cfg contains this:
>     >>>> ./hobbitclient.cfg:CONFIGCLASS="$BBOSTYPE"         # Default
>     >>>> configuration class for logfiles
>     >>>>
>     >>>> hobbitclient.sh uses the CONFIGCLASS variable when sending the
>     >>>> client message:
>     >>>> ./bin/hobbitclient.sh:echo "client $MACHINE.$BBOSTYPE
>     >>>> $CONFIGCLASS"  >>  $MSGTMPFILE
>     >>>>
>     >>>> Heres the actual client message header Im sending (not that
>     >>>> CONFIGCLASS  is being set to "linux" instead of the specified
>     class:
>     >>>> client host-app-23.linux linux
>     >>>>
>     >>>> -Charles
>     >>>>
>     >>>>
>     >>>> Charles Jones wrote:
>     >>>>> Anyone have any thoughts on this? I'm currently dead in the
>     water
>     >>>>> without this working as it should.  I tried emailing Henrik as
>     >>>>> well but I'm sure he is too busy to reply.
>     >>>>>
>     >>>>> -Charles
>     >>>>>
>     >>>>> Charles Jones wrote:
>     >>>>>> I have a host whose client was started via: "./runclient.sh
>     >>>>>> --class=APP_PRIMARY start"
>     >>>>>>
>     >>>>>> In the hobbit servers hobbit-clients.cfg, I have something
>     >>>>>> similar to:
>     >>>>>>
>     >>>>>> CLASS=APP_PRIMARY
>     >>>>>>    PROC "someproc"
>     >>>>>>    PROC "/some/other/proc"
>     >>>>>> ....
>     >>>>>> DEFAULT
>     >>>>>>    PROC sshd
>     >>>>>>
>     >>>>>> The problem is that only the default proc "sshd" is being
>     checked
>     >>>>>> on the host.  The expected behavior is that the CLASS would be
>     >>>>>> used and other other procs checked instead. I know this has
>     >>>>>> nothing to do with the DEFAULT setting, as using HOST=hostname
>     >>>>>> works fine. I just cant get it to check the procs by CLASS.  Is
>     >>>>>> there any way to debug this?  Shouldn't the CLASS show up
>     in the
>     >>>>>> "info" section?  Do I need to put the class name in quotes
>     on the
>     >>>>>> command line?
>     >>>>>
>     >
>
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