RE: {bb} dig on clients?

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

On Mon, 2006-05-22 at 20:13, Philip Clark wrote:
> I'm not sure where the specific error messages are coming from, but
> it looks like the client is attempting to send messages using an
> empty machine name. For example, the parts like:
> 
>     status .cpu green
> 
> should look like:
> 
>     status host,domain,com.cpu green
> 
> if you are using fully qualified domain names, or:
> 
>     status host.cpu green
> 
> otherwise.
> 
> This is a little odd, because BB normally does a good deal of checking
> to ensure that the name is valid and correct. You might check that
> "uname -n" returns the same host name that you are using for this
> host in the bb-hosts file. You might also try using the file
> $BBHOME/etc/bbaliasname to force the name of the local machine to be
> what you want.
> 
> If you are much more interested in getting things working than finding
> out what is going wrong (and this may be the most conservative first
> step), it may be better to just delete the current install (or move it
> out of the way if you want to refer to it later) and start again from
> scratch. I'm guessing (and it is a guess) that something may be going
> wrong with the "bbconfig" step.
> 
> Cheers, Phil.

Apologies for forgetting the back-story to this (and replying to my
own post).

Cristian, can you tell us which version of AIX this is? It is
possible that the problem may be due to some utility commands that
are not behaving as BB expects. For example, as a first guess, what
does a command of the following type return?

  echo "splodginessabounds" | wc -c


Cheers, Phil.



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