Re: {bb} won't start on debian 3.1

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

On Thu, 2006-05-11 at 20:58, Chris Henry wrote:
> Hey guys -
> 
> I've done my best reading the readmes and browsing the archives - but I 
> haven't found my problem anywhere. 
> 
> I'm running debian 3.1 linux with a 2.6 kernel - I followed the 
> installation instructions very closely (very similar to most src 
> packages) and everything looks okay to me.  The only warning I get when 
> i run the chk scripts are about numeric paging notifications which I am 
> not using.  The problem comes when I go to start big brother.  As the bb 
> user I:
> 
> bb:~/bb1.9i-btf$ ./runbb.sh
> Starting Big Brother
> Big Brother 1.9i started
> bb:~/bb1.9i-btf$
> 
> however the daemon never starts.  There is no process running and the 
> bb2.html page is never created.  The only thing in the BBOUT file is::
> 
> bb:~/bb1.9i-btf$ cat BBOUT
> Thu May 11 12:54:20 CEST 2006: Starting Big Brother...
> Big Brother 1.9i started
> bb:~/bb1.9i-btf$
> 
> I received no errors at compile time and everything else such as the 
> webpage and the cgi-bin scripts work.  Is there a way I can force big 
> brother to log why the daemon is dying, or is this a known problem(i 
> didn't see it in any of the mailling list archives)?   Any help would be 
> greatly appreciated as I am stuck on this. 

The contents of BBOUT should actually look more like:

  Thu May 11 12:54:20 CEST 2006: Starting Big Brother...
  	Starting Big Brother Daemon (bbd)...
  	Starting Network tests (bb-network)...
  	Starting Display process (bb-display)...
  Big Brother 1.9i started

The first thing to check is that the binaries have been copied into
the BBHOME/bin directory. Look for "bb", "bbd" and so on.

Next, you should confirm that the line in the bb-hosts file for this
machine uses exactly the same name as that which is returned by the
"uname" command. If the line is like this:

  192.168.0.99 bbsvr.mynet.org # BBPAGER BBNET BBDISPLAY smtp ssh

then "uname -n" should return "bbsvr" or "bbsvr.mynet.org". If not
(and you really want to keep them different) you should use the 
BBHOME/etc/bbaliasname file to override the one from "uname".

Cheers, Phil.



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