Re: {bb} A Little Newbie Verification Please....

[Christian Pearce <pearcec@PacketPushers.com>]

Put your fears to rest.  Installing bb is not a difficult task at all.  I
think the biggest mistake I always make is not unpacking bb in the
directory he is going to reside in.  (ie /usr/local)  I always start by
unpacking it in my home dir first by force of habit.

Follow the installation directions as close as possiable.  You might want
to grab a init script.  Either from the archives or here this is the one I
use.

#!/bin/sh
#
# bb            Starts/Stops Big Brother
#
# Author:       Bertil Stenstrom, 990722
#
# chkconfig: 345 98 17
# description: Big Brother client and server
#
#
#
# Source function library.
. /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions

# See how we were called.
case "$1" in
  start)
        echo -n "Starting bb: "
        daemon --check /usr/local/bb/bin/bbrun  su bb -c
\"/usr/local/bb/runbb.sh start\"
        touch /var/lock/subsys/bb
        echo
        ;;
  stop)
        echo -n "Shutting down Big Brother: "
        daemon --check "" su bb -c \"/usr/local/bb/runbb.sh stop\"
        rm -f /usr/local/bb/tmp/BBPID
        rm -f /var/lock/subsys/bb
        echo
        ;;
  restart)
        $0 stop
        $0 start
        ;;
  status)
        status bb
        ;;
  *)
        echo "Usage: bb {start|stop|restart|status}"
        exit 1
esac

exit 0

Good luck.

Christian Pearce
-PacketPusher

On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, Melvin, Theresa (Osky Unix Administrator) wrote:

> I am about an hour away from installing BigBrother on our web server to
> moniter our network.  I have spent the past couple of weeks devouring both
> the present and the past messages posted to this list, and have even spoken
> with Sean MacGuire on one occasion.  I have downloaded and setup BB on my
> local Linux Box (Mandrake 7.1) and have read all the README's that came with
> BB.  After all that, I am still a little nervous about my next step and am
> just wanting to verify that I am "on the right track". 
> 
> On our web server (RedHat 6.1), I have created a user acct and named it 'bb'
> - this will be the BBDISPLAY Server.  I will then install BB1.4 into this
> account, add the nessessary information where appropriate, and that should
> be enough to get me started. (umm..right?)  
> 
> For starters, I plan to monitor 5 UNIX boxes and 8 NT boxes.  At which point
> I will need to install the client on each of them - correct?  
> 
> Is there anything else that I am missing/forgetting?  
> 
> Thanks in advance for any advice you can offer to put my mind at ease.
> 
> Theresa
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Theresa N. Melvin
> UNIX Administrator
> Clow Valve Company
> 
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