Re: {bb} bbgen 3.4 released

[Henrik Storner <henrik-bb@hswn.dk>]

In <E487C0DE205E3145943194A360156EC0290B74@bolbw04-bdc.bordersgroupinc.com> "Sunil Modi (IT)" <smodi@bordersgroupinc.com> writes:

>> bbgen version 3.4 is now available on www.deadcat.net.
>> 
>> This release fixes a couple of embarassing bugs that crept into 3.3:
>> * info- and larrd-files were generated with wrong filenames, using the
>>   ip-address instead of the column-name in the filename. You'll need
>>   to manually wipe those files from your bbvar/logs/ directory.
>> * The new bb-hostsvc CGI would crash when trying to show a one-line
>>   BB logfile. Unfortunately, quite a few tools generate such logs.
>> * The traceroute done for failing ping-tests (if requested) would use
>>   the hostname, instead of the IP-address that was used for the
>>   original ping test.
>> 

>First off this is an amazing tool to begin with.  It has helped
> improve the capacity of BB with leaps and bounds and, Henrik, you are
> the only one the thank for it.  I had a one question about this
> release and future releases of BBGEN, and that is, will the ping
> issue be resolved; in the BBGEN 2.16 vs BBGEN 3+ ping is done
> differently?
>
>FPING = "/usr/local/sbin/run_as_root fping"
>export FPING
>
>works with BBGEN 2.16 but not with BBGEN3+.

It's on the TODO list, but not terribly high up because there is a
very simple work-around for it. Create a file $BBHOME/fpingwrap

   #!/bin/sh
   /usr/local/sbin/run_as_root fping $*

and use

   FPING=$BBHOME/fpingwrap
   export FPING


Henrik
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