{bb} initial page delay

[Jason Signalness <jason@btiadmin.net>]

Hello,

I have been reading through the archives and there seems to be a lot of 
discussion about the initial page delay settings in bbwarnrules.cfg.  So 
much info that I can't decide what's relevant to my own problem.  So I 
apologize if this is redundant.  I realize bb is detecting some real 
problems on our network, but I'm so sleep deprived from the flapping 
services at night that I can't even begin to solve them once I do get to 
a terminal.

I'm running BB 1.9e.  I added "*;;*;;*;*;*:~15" to my bbwarnrules.cfg 
file as a test of the initial delay setting, and it seemed to have no 
effect.  I set a condition that resulted in a page, and the page went 
out immediately.  Am I missing something? 

There was mention of a bug with this syntax, but that may have been in 
an older version?  Anyone have details on that?

Here is the relevant portion of my bbwarnrules.cfg file:
------------------------------
# Don't page unless something is down for 15 minutes.
*;;*;;*;*;*:~15

# email admin about everything (except things explicitly
# excluded below)
*;;*;;*;*;admin@abc.com

# Big Brother Pagers
# See /etc/aliases for the proper e-mail addresses. To change who pages 
go to, modify those aliases.  Don't change this.
#
#Next 5 lines are the default:
#Paul
hg-hostgroup1;;*;;*;*;ext-ex4-btipager_one admin@abc.com
#Rob
hg-hostgroup2;;*;;*;*;ext-ex4-btipager_two admin@abc.com
#Jason
hg-hostgroup3;;*;;*;*;ext-ex5-btipager_three admin@abc.com
#Kevin
hg-kevin;;*;;*;*;ext-ex4-btipager_four admin@abc.com
#Neal
hg-neal;;*;;*;*;ext-ex4-btipager_five admin@abc.com
#Mark K.
hg-mark;;*;;*;*;ext-ex4-btipager_six admin@abc.com

#Everyone
hg-hostedservers;;*;;*;*;ext-ex4-btipager_one ext-ex4-btipager_two 
ext-ex4-btipager_three admin@abc.com
------------------------------

Any suggestions?

Thanks in advance,
Jason

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