Re: {bb} Inaccurate background colour

[Philip Clark <bblist@cannae.uklinux.net>]

On Thu, 2005-10-20 at 21:53, Andrew Culver wrote:
> Thank you Kimberly and Philip for your replies. I've looked into the 
> points you suggested.
> 
> bb.html is being updated as I can see the "last update" time is 
> accurate. bb2.html also displays the wrong background colour, and its 
> time is also accurate.
> 
> There are no subdirectories in the logs or hist dirs. There are some 
> broken symlinks in here though. We use symlinks to hide the hostname 
> from the display so people who don't know what machine X is will see 
> "Mail_Server" instead, for example. Some of the links are broken since I 
> don't have all the reports coming in yet.

I'd guess that the symbolic links are the source of your problem.
I'm pretty sure that this is not a supported technique, but (if
you really, really must do this) hard links are likely to cause
fewer problems than symbolic ones.

> Running bbchkhosts.sh does come up with several unknown directives for 
> internal scripts such as oracle and disk checks. Also a few invalid 
> hostnames where we haven't put a real hostname in. These will be cleaned 
> up in time as I get these scripts installed (I'm moving bb to a new host 
> with a new version of bb and we have lots of hairy home-grown scripts to 
> piece back together).

The check script tends to be less "intelligent" than the actual
parser and reports weird things as potential problems, just to
be on the safe side. It sounds like your set-up may be weirder
than most :)

> I was hoping this might be a common problem with a known solution. But 
> as it seems this isn't the case, I'll leave it for now and see if the 
> problem corrects itself once I get the internal scripts and broken links 
> fixed up. Maybe this is also why I'm unable to disable any hosts/services...

If you just want the "fake" name to be used by BB, you can put that
name in bb-hosts and use the "testip" directive. If that machine is
running the client tests, you will need to use a "bbaliasname" file
so that it uses the "fake" name too. If you want to use both (or
multiple) names, you would either have to repeat the tests for each
name, do some serious code-mangling or stick with the method that
you're using (and keep an eye out for side effects).

Cheers, Phil.



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