RE: {bb} BBOUT filles the filesystem

[Benjamin Bass <bbass@concentric.com>]

Duh...  Sorry about the explanation to your second question...  It's Monday
morning, I'm still on my first cup of tea, and the brain isn't at full
functionality yet, so I managed to misread what you were asking about...
I'm not sure why it behaved like that either, so will defer to the more
knowledgeable brothers...

Ben

		-----Original Message-----
		From:	Benjamin Bass [mailto:bbass@concentric.com]
		Sent:	Monday, January 31, 2000 11:48 AM
		To:	'bb@bb4.com'
		Subject:	RE: {bb} BBOUT filles the filesystem 

		Here's what I did...

		In your runbb.sh script, go to the section of code where BB
is restarted
		(~line 51).  Add this in before doing anything else:

		test -f $BBHOME/BBOUT.2 && mv $BBHOME/BBOUT.2
$BBHOME/BBOUT.3
		test -f $BBHOME/BBOUT.1 && mv $BBHOME/BBOUT.1
$BBHOME/BBOUT.2
		test -f $BBHOME/BBOUT.0 && mv $BBHOME/BBOUT.0
$BBHOME/BBOUT.1
		mv $BBHOME/BBOUT $BBHOME/BBOUT.0

		Then change the redirection with the echo of Restarting Big
Brother to '>'
		from '>>' (This will create a new log file).

		Finally, create a cron job to issue a 'runbb.sh restart'
command at some
		regular interval (I do it on Mondays and Thursdays).  What
this will do is
		create several backup copies of your BBOUT file, for you to
look at or
		delete at your convience.  This code is the same as in
Solaris, that causes
		the /var/adm/messages logs to roll over.


		For your other question...  The 'conn', 'ftp', 'telnet' and
other
		connectivity-type tests are run from the BBDISPLAY machine,
not the client.
		So if the client is rebooted, and BB doesn't restart, the
connectivity
		between the BBDISPLAY host and the client are still
restarted when the
		client reboots...  Hence, the green dots for those tests
when everything
		else goes purple.  (I also created a cron script to check
for the existence
		of BB processes on clients to help restart BB if something
goes wrong on a
		client to help keep this from happening)...


		Hope this helps...

		Ben Bass
		Concentric Network

				-----Original Message-----
				From:	Dietmar Felmer
		[mailto:Dietmar.Felmer@ivmed.med.uni-erlangen.de]
				Sent:	Monday, January 31, 2000 5:56 AM
				To:	bb@bb4.com
				Subject:	{bb} BBOUT filles the
filesystem 

				Dear Brothers,

				maybe one of You can help me to stop BBOUT
increasing to
		fast an filling
				the / filesystem (BBHOME=/opt/bb). The
problem is that the
		BBOUT file is
				always open when bbd runs (= all the time)
and therefore it
		can't be
				reduced.  

				Another strange behavior I had some days ago
when one bb
		client mashine
				was rebooted within 4 min so the 'conn' dot
never goes red.
		As BB wasn't
				started after reboot I expected that all the
dots except
		'conn' and the
				network dots (ftp, telnet,..) must turn to
purple after 30
		min but they
				didn't. Everything else is working fine, so
I donno whats
		the cause.

				Any help would be great,     

				Dietmar
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