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

[steve sayler <Steve.Sayler@noaa.gov>]

I just thought that I'd give the list an update on this, for weeks I've been struggling, trying to get rid of erroneous email notifications, even AFTER I removed the host(s) from bb-hosts & did a bin/bbrm on the hostname on the BB server. Finally, a light bulb went off, and I figured it out.

SOME BACKGROUND: I'm running two BB servers, one as the Primary and one as the Failover. I use rsync to keep the failover's files up-to-date run through cron hourly. It dawned on me, finally, that the failover server was the one sending out the email notification. WHY did it do it? As part of my rsync process, I rsync bb/etc/*, which then makes the BB Failover think that its the primary (since its just gotten the primary's etc/bb-hosts file). Now I've modified my rsync scripts to exclude bb/etc/bb-hosts and things are happy.

I really appreciate the response(s) I get from my brother (& sisters) on BB issues from this list, thanks all,
steve

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?
steve

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