[hobbit] ghostlist

Bill Arlofski waa-hobbitml at revpol.com
Fri May 23 21:05:55 CEST 2008


Could it be that the clients are reporting as a name different than the 
name you have in the bb-hosts file?

If yes, then check out the CLIENT:  directive for the bb-hosts file. I 
have had this happen to me a couple times.




Phil Wild wrote:
> Hi Henrik
> 
> Sorry to ask this directly, hopefully you can help me. I have asked this of
> the group a couple of times but have not had a suitable answer back.
> 
> I am trying to use the output received from hobbitd when issuing the bb
> ghostlist command. The command reports correctly, but after modifying the
> bb-hosts file, ghostlist continues to report ghosts. I need to do a full
> restart of hobbit to get hobbitd reporting correctly.
> 
> I started digging through the source tonight but I have to admit that I just
> can't understand C well enough. hobbitd knows the bb-hosts file has been
> updated because the host appears on the webpage, but ghostlist still reports
> it incorrectly.
> 
> Is a restart the only way to resolve this? Could I HUP a process to fix it?
> 
> Many thanks
> 
> Phil
> 
> 




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