Hi,
Been where you are at... Hobbit needs a mail server/client and it does
get set up separately. Most distros (might be helpful if you share which
you are running) install sendmail by default (my centos did) but you do
have to configure it; if yours did not it is usually fairly easy to
install and then google something like: howto setup sendmail and then
kind of piece it together for your environment. Mine was straight
forward for sending and it got a little more complicated for receiving
when I got to acknowledgments via e-mail.
I cheated and changed the permissions on fping so that everyone had
permissions to execute and it fixed all my issues.
I hope it helps and don't give up I love Hobbit and I got to learn a
bunch of Linux stuff that has opened a whole new world of possibilities
even though I still bleed Microsoft blue :-)
BTW something called webmin is a God send to configure anything in linux
for someone who is a newbie like myself.
Thank You,
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-----Original Message-----
From: Goodridge, David [mailto:user-848b00d5cce5@xymon.invalid]
Sent: Wednesday, April 01, 2009 4:23 PM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: [hobbit] RE: [BULK] RE: [hobbit] Newbie Issues
OK, so hobbit runs using user 'bb'.
Which fping returns "/usr/local/sbin/fping"
Ls -l `which fping` returns (-rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 73958 Sep 22 2004
/usr/local/sbin/fping)
Is this what you thought??
Why do you think other ping tests seem to work??
Does hobbit install an smtp server or client *OR* is this something
setup separately??
Thanks,
Dave
-----Original Message-----
From: Hubbard, Greg L [mailto:user-d970b5e56ec9@xymon.invalid]
Sent: Wednesday, April 01, 2009 5:02 PM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: [BULK] RE: [hobbit] Newbie Issues
Importance: Low
I work mostly with Solaris, so I am not sure what really works on your
Linux system, but...
A) you can maybe run "top" from a terminal and look for processes with
"hobbit" in their name. A similar, more focused method would be to run
"ps -ef | grep hobbit" and see what gets listed. My *guess* is that a
user called "hobbit" may have created as part of the package
installation?
B) Josh probably meant for you to use the "backticks" instead of double
quotes on the command. You can do it in two steps by running $ which
fping followed by $ ls -l <whatever which returns> -- the point is to
see if your fping has been setuid to root, which would allow a
non-privileged user to run fping. Normally Hobbit runs as a
non-privileged user.
I don't know what to say about the mailer issue, other than if this is a
new system someone may have set up a bogus mail forwarder, or it might
be using DNS to find a forwarder for a specific domain.
GLH
-----Original Message-----
From: Goodridge, David [mailto:user-848b00d5cce5@xymon.invalid]
Sent: Wednesday, April 01, 2009 3:31 PM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: RE: [hobbit] Newbie Issues
Hi Greg,
How do I know if hobbit is using fping?? Root was able to use fping.
Hobbit user can not. Actually, how do I know what user is for hobbit??
The 216.20.121.4 is not an smtp server and I received a connection
refused.
Ls -l "which fping" <-- says no such file or directory
Thanks,
Dave
-----Original Message-----
From: Hubbard, Greg L [mailto:user-d970b5e56ec9@xymon.invalid]
Sent: Wednesday, April 01, 2009 3:47 PM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: RE: [hobbit] Newbie Issues
Are you using fping? Can the hobbit user run fping? Seems like you
have to do some fiddling because fping requires root, and the symptom is
red connectivity tests for everything in the bb-hosts file. This is a
dim memory from when I first set up Hobbit several years ago...
GLH
-----Original Message-----
From: Goodridge, David [mailto:user-848b00d5cce5@xymon.invalid]
Sent: Wednesday, April 01, 2009 2:37 PM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: RE: [hobbit] Newbie Issues
Hi Josh,
Issue 1 - Now, if I look at status page, the status is red, but I can
ping the ip from the hobbit server
Bb-hosts for this test is as follows:
216.20.63.145 mec-dns1 # NET:brutus
216.20.63.147 mec-dns2 # NET:brutus
Hobbit-alerts.cfg (omitted comments)
$pg-city-email=MAIL
user-848b00d5cce5@xymon.invalid,user-b38516d3092e@xymon.invalid
$pg-sps-email=MAIL user-0a5f3a8b293f@xymon.invalid
$IGNPAT=%(annex-nw|gozo|mis-server)
$IGNPAT2=%(annex-nw|gozo|mis-server|sps*|finance)
$SCHOOLS=%(sps|finance)
EXPAGE=sps-servers COLOR=red
MAIL user-848b00d5cce5@xymon.invalid
EXPAGE=sps-servers,achieve
EXHOST=%(svf-nt|svfunix|somerville|spd-mail|spd-main)
EXSERVICE=%(if_stat|http) TIME=12345:0800:17 00 COLOR=red
SCRIPT /bb/hms/server/ext/page-limit.pl user-d97bd61d0f0f@xymon.invalid
$pg-city-email
PAGE=sps-servers TIME=0123456:0000:2400
$pg-sps-email
HOST=%(SIS-WEB-01|SIS-DATA-01)
MAIL
user-2ddf1df9bec2@xymon.invalid,user-0a5f3a8b293f@xymon.invalid
Thanks,
Dave
-----Original Message-----
From: Josh Luthman [mailto:user-4c45a83f15cb@xymon.invalid]
Sent: Wednesday, April 01, 2009 3:25 PM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: Re: [hobbit] Newbie Issues
Issue 1 - what is your hobbit-alert.conf
Issue 2 - no hobbit uses the mail command. Can you give us more detail
as to what the email error is?
On 4/1/09, Goodridge, David <user-848b00d5cce5@xymon.invalid> wrote:Hello,
I'm new to hobbit and linux so please bear with me. I've looked at
some of the conf files, but can't seem to resolve a couple of issues.
Issue 1 - keep getting critical messages even when status is green on
status screen. Messages come every 5 minutes.
Issue 2 - some messages are not getting thru. has hobbit installed
it's own email server? i've run a mailq command and see a bunch of
messages saying "connection refused" to a specific server. not sure
why it's trying to connect to that server.
Thanks,
Dave
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