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

[Chris Henry <chenry3@ocean.washington.edu>]

Phil -

Thanks for your tips; however I still can't get it to start.  the bb, 
bbd,  bb-network.sh and bb-display binaries are all located in my 
BBHOME/bin directory and are executable.  The entry in my bb-hosts file 
exactly matches my hostname (from uname -n - i am using FQDN).  I did 
however set my WAN ip in the bb-hosts file as oppose to say 127.0.0.1 - 
however my firewall accepts anything from both localhost and anything on 
my subnet (including it's own external ip) so I don't think that should 
be an issue.  everything in the BBHOME directory is owned by the user 
bb.  Any other ideas?

-Chris


Philip Clark wrote:

> 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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