Re: {bb} Big Brother

[Sean MacGuire <sean@MacLawran.CA>]

Chris Cook wrote:
> 
> Hey All,
> 
>         I have just installed BB for the first time.  I cant get big
> brother to page me... it doesn't even pick up the modem.  I can use kermit
> manually and dial, but it seems bb never gets that far.  It wont work via
> the page html or just an alarm.  It does email me though.  I was wondering
> if anyone could tell me how to pinpoint the problem.  I am running BB on a
> FreeBSD Server that is monitoring just itself... Thanks in advance.

Hmmm... sorry for the delay in replying and thanks for sending
again.

All paging is done by the machine called BBPAGER in etc/bb-hosts.
Go to that machine - look in bin/bb-page1.sh around line 565 
you'll see:

[0-9]* )     # echo "NUMERIC PAGING"
             $BBHOME/bin/sendmsg $BBHOME/etc/numeric.scr 
		${PREFIX}$page ${BBNUMERIC}${randval}${SUFFIX}
             ;;

the sendmsg script actually sends the numeric page using kermit,
so I suggest setting the first line to #!/bin/sh -x and looking
at the debug output, or you could try running it by hand...

Good luck, and thanks for hitting the list.
-- 
Sean MacGuire, Reality Engineer               sean@MacLawran.ca
The Big Brother Ministry of Truth      http://maclawran.ca/sean
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