Re: {bb} Not all external scripts started at systemboot.

[Frank Timmers <frank.timmers@philips.com>]

> On 2/28/06, Frank Timmers <frank.timmers@philips.com> wrote:
> 
> > /sbin/rc3.d/S951bb-client
> >
> > It's on an HP/UX 11i (v1) system.
> >
> 
> This may be completely out of left-field and irrelevant, but it bit me
> once. I installed BB on a RHES box once that, for SOME reason, changed
> hostname during the boot process. Don't ask me why - I didn't set it
> up. :)

I have to check (need to find a time to boot one of the systems), however 
my guess is that it's very relevant.


> Anyhoo, I had the exact same issue, and it turns out that the runtime
> hostname was used in the bb-exttab, so once the system was fully up
> all the externals would start just fine, but not during boot (we use a
> standardized [and pretty large] bb-exttab that's distributed to the
> clients by way of scp, so there's only one central copy to keep track
> of - and it also prevents us from using localhost as a host entry in
> the bb-exttab file).

I'm doing the very same thing and the single external script that is 
started (bb-iostat.sh) is on a line with localhost.

 
> This issue was dealt with by doing a proper hostname change.
> 
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I'll let the list know if this is/was indeed the problem here also :)


Greetings,
/Frank.
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