{bb} New custom ext script showing purple, although it shouldn't

["Ben Pitzer" <bpitzer@southeast.rr.com>]

Brothers and Sisters,

I wrote a new script (well, two, actually) yesterday to push the summaries
of a log analysis script to the BB server for informational purposes only.
The test should only ever show up as green, as there are no conditions set
in the script to make it go yellow or red.  I have a cronned shell script
creating the analysis summaries of five syslog files for a custom,
proprietary program at my company on my central syslog server in the
following format:

	##### div1 #####
	<data>
	##### div1 #####
	##### div2 #####
	<data>
	##### div2 #####

And etc. for 5 divisions.  It recreates this file every 30 minutes.  I also
have a perl script running as an ext script in the BB client on that host
that parses that file and sends its updates to the BBDISPLAY, always with
the green condition.  The way I have it set up, even if the data is not
there (as in the file hasn't been finished, or is empty when the ext script
runs, the status line should still say 'green'.  However, I am getting
periodic purples on some of my entries for reasons unknown.  When it
happens, the page on the BBDISPLAY shows no more than a few seconds
difference in the date of the page and the date of the last update, so why
is this turning purple on me? I've added it to the 'ignoreforall' field of
the bbwarnsetup.cfg file, as this is informational only, and there is no
need for it to page out, but still, I'd like to know what I might be missing
that is causing this test to go purple at random, yet fairly frequent
intervals (at least one goes purple every hours, it appears).

Any thoughts or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.  Both BBDISPLAY
and client are Solaris 8, running BB 1.9c with bbgen (although the client
may not have the latest bbgen version, as the client may have been installed
prior to my latest bbgen upgrade on the server.  Not sure if that matters,
but worth mentioning).

Regards,
Ben Pitzer

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"Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
 --Ben Franklin--



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