{bb} BB client on BB server conflicts on bb server system

[<fuser9bb@hotpop.com>]

I am running bb1.9e-btf on FreeBSD 4.10.

I have several bb clients reporting to one bb server. I have some kind of
weird conflict that I need help with. Here is a quick summary of what is
going on.

* I have a bb server.

* The bb server reports purple on disk, cpu, msgs, and procs if I do not run
bbc1.9e-btf on the same machine out of a different directory. (I have
bb/bb1.9e-btf and bb/bbc1.9e-btf.)

* The bb server reports green on disk, cpu, msgs, and procs (with current
time values) if I run both the bb server and client on the bb display.

* If I run both the bb server and the bb client, then bb-inode.sh reports
red. I found that this is caused by both the server and client sharing the
same bb-hosts and bb-bbexttab. The bb-bbexttab contains:

bbdisplay.example.com: : bb-iostat.sh bb-inode.sh

When both the bb server and client run 'inode' goes red. I found that this
is because bbdef-server.sh does not define things like DFWARN. If cheated to
test this and added:

. $BBHOME/etc/bbdef-client.sh

To the end of bb1.9-btf/etc/bbdef-server.sh. This seemed to fix the 'inode'
report.

I would prefer not running the bb client on the bb display, but I don't see
a way around it. cpu, disk, msgs, and proc go purple otherwise. I did notice
though that the bb server runs the extensions. This is odd behaviour. It
should be one or the other I think. Either the bb server should provide
client functionality (e.g., bb-local.sh, extensions), or it should run
neither. Or is there another reason for this?


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