Re: {bb} can't get rid of email messages

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

On Fri, 2006-10-06 at 17:12, steve sayler wrote:
> This is frustrating, with my bb-1.9i system,  I'm getting messages
> like crazy (about every 300 min) from several machines that my Win
> sys-admin removed from the network w/o telling me. I edited the
> bb-hosts file to remove the machines, and then ran bin/bbrm 'hostname'
> on each machine that was removed from the network. That was Wed., and
> I'm still getting emails today (Fri) every 300 or so minutes. Here is
> the email I receive:
>
>   [1368810]  sxiproc02.conn purple Wed Oct  4 13:25:53 UTC 2006
> Connection OK 
>   PING 192.168.226.210 (192.168.226.210) 56(84) bytes of data.
>   64 bytes from 192.168.226.210: icmp_seq=0 ttl=127 time=0.273 ms
>
>   --- 192.168.226.210 ping statistics ---
>   1 packets transmitted, 1 received, 0% packet loss, time 0ms
>   rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.273/0.273/0.273/0.000 ms, pipe 2
>
>
>   sxiproc02 
>   This entry is no longer listed in /usr/local/bb/bb/etc/bb-hosts.  To
>   remove this purple message, please delete the log files for this host
>   located in _BBLOGS, _BBHIST and _BBHISTLOGS if this host is no longer
>   monitored 
>
>   Please see: http://bigbrother-02.sec.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/bb-hostsvc.sh?
> HOSTSVC=sxiproc02.conn
>
> I've examined   bbvar/hist/    bbvar/histlogs/   and   bbvar/logs/
> for any traces of the machine(s) names, and there is nothing present.
> and... Whats even weirder, is that the link (above) reports the
> following when clicked:
>
>   ERROR!
>   bb-hostsvc.sh called with invalid arguments
>
> additional info:
>
>   bbwarnrules.cfg:*;;*;;1-5;*;pg-bb
>   bbwarnsetup.cfg:pg-bb:Steve.Sayler@noaa.gov
>   bbwarnsetup.cfg:pagerecovered: FALSE
>   bbwarnsetup.cfg:pagedelay: 150
>   bbwarnsetup.cfg:pagelevels: red purple
>   bbwarnsetup.cfg:pagetype: EVENT
>
> Any ideas?

Are you running more than one BBDISPLAY machine? The hostname in the
link "bigbrother-02.sec.noaa.gov" suggests that there may well be
a "bigbrother-01" somewhere too. If so, you'll need to make sure
that the log files are cleared from BBVAR on each of them.

Cheers, Phil.



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