[hobbit] Oversized status message

[Benedikt Kristinsson]

On Wed, 2010-03-10 at 06:56 +0000, Vernon Everett wrote:
> Two other things you can try.
> 
> I recall there was a version of Hobbit, a good few years back, where
> the hobbitserver.cfg setting didn't actually work. I had to change the
> size in the code and recompile - but it is unlikely you are using such
> a venerable version.
> 
> I have also seen that sometimes Windoze servers spew logs of
> unfathomable size.
> Even changing the hobbitserver.cfg settings did not help.
> This is more likely your situation.
> We ended up having to limit the contents of the log files.
> To do this, I added some entries to client-local.cfg on the
> Hobbit/Xymon server.
> [HOST1,HOST2,HOST3]
> eventlog:security
> ignore 0
> eventlog:application
> ignore BigBrotherHobbitClient|information
> 
> From my limited understanding of how Windoze works, I believe this
> excluded application event logs regarding the BBWin client and
> application information logs, as well as any security related event
> logs with a 0 return code - which was our main problem - heaps of
> status 0 security messages.
> 
> YMMV.
> 
> Regards
>      Vernon 

Thanks. I think that windows was to blame. I got the owner off the
machine to reboot it and hobbitd hasn't complained since. 

-- Benedikt