Re: {bb} two big brother problems

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

> Hi all,
>
> First off, I apologize for posting this, because I know that this is
> an incredibly common error, but I cannot seem to find the bug.
>
> I installed the big brother client on a Fedora machine. I set
> everything up on the server, and edited both bb-hosts files to make
> sure they matched. However, when I run it, I get the following error:
>
> Filesystem of /home/bigbro/bbc/tmp is FULL
>
> I double-checked the locations of tools, whether user bigbro could
> write to the tmp directory, and so on, and everything seems fine. I
> ran bbconfig to set it up. Does anyone have any other ideas what
> else it could be?
>
> The second problem is with monitoring specific strings. Basically,
> we have some databases that we check to make sure are up and running
> by having BB see if the path for a database-generated page exists.
> In the bb-hosts file, the line is this:
>
> 141.161.111.203 AutomatedBibsAbstinEd #
> strg;http://www.mchlibrary.info/database
> s/action.lasso?-database=Biblio&-layout=Web&-response=automated_
> search_results.lasso&-MaxRecords=all&-DoScript=auto_search_abstined&-
> search;Interchange
>
> (that is all on one line)
>
> Now, with our old big brother server, it would bring up conn,
> larrd and strg info. However, with the new one, using the same
> bb-hosts file, it only brings up conn, which doesn't work. Any
> ideas as to why it isn't bringing up the other info?

The "Filesystem of /home/bigbro/bbc/tmp is FULL" message actually
means that, when trying to run the disk test, a zero sized file was
created. I think that the simplest way to work out what is going
wrong is to duplicate what the script is attempting on the command
line and see what error results.

What you need to do (as the BB user) is something like:

  export BBHOME=/home/bigbro/bbc
  cd $BBHOME
  . etc/bbdef.sh
  eval "$DFCMD | $EGREP \"$DFUSE\" | $EGREP -v \"$DFEXCLUDE\" | 
$SORT \"+${DFSORT}\""

Note that this is four lines. The third starts with a dot (period) and
the fourth line is wrapped.

If that produces the expected output, next try and send it to a file:

  eval "$DFCMD | $EGREP \"$DFUSE\" | $EGREP -v \"$DFEXCLUDE\" | 
$SORT \"+${DFSORT}\" > $BBTMP/DFOUT.test"
  cat $BBTMP/DFOUT.test

Your second problem does not appear to be a standard test. I'd guess
that it is either a script from the Deadcat web-site or something
specific that has been developed by one of your colleagues. You'll
need to find out what is responsible for performing that test and
let the list know, otherwise people would just be guessing.

Cheers, Phil.



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