acks & maint.pl aren't working

Tom Georgoulias wrote:

Upgraded to 4.0.2 this morning and while most everything
went smoothly, a couple of things did not.  Not sure if
these two are 
related just yet.

ack:

Cannot acknowledge an alert using the cookie from either
the subject line of the email alert or the command line
(~/server/bin/bb 127.0.0.1 "hobbitdboard
host=secret.nandomedia.com test=conn
fields=hostname,testname,cookie"). 

Strangely enough, it seems teh cookies are still being
regenerated frequently, instead of remaining valid for 24
hours (like I 
thought the
latest patch did).

[bb at radm202p ext]$ ~/server/bin/bb 127.0.0.1 "hobbitdboard
host=secret.nandomedia.com test=conn
fields=hostname,testname,cookie"
secret.nandomedia.com|conn|402332 [bb at radm202p ext]$
~/server/bin/bb 127.0.0.1 "hobbitdack 402332 30 using
command line ack for 402332"
[bb at radm202p ext]$ tail ~/data/acks/acklog
[bb at radm202p ext]$ tail ~/log/hobbitd.log
2005-04-11 09:05:24 How did this happen? clients=0,
s.sem_op=0 2005-04-11 09:05:34 Setup complete 2005-04-11
09:08:28 How did this happen? clients=0, s.sem_op=0
2005-04-11 09:08:38 Setup complete 2005-04-11 09:40:34
Cookie 87973 not found, dropping ack 2005-04-11 09:41:38
Cookie 587666 not found, dropping ack 2005-04-11 09:54:35
Cookie 587666 not found, dropping ack 2005-04-11 09:55:45
Cookie 873795 not found, dropping ack 2005-04-11 09:56:33
Cookie 873795 not found, dropping ack 2005-04-11 10:06:29
Cookie 402332 not found, dropping ack [bb at radm202p ext]$

Trying to disable the same system via the disable CGI
didn't work either.  The script stops at "Processing" and
the system is 
not disabled.

This is what I see in /var/log/httpd/error_log

[Mon Apr 11 09:59:25 2005] [error] [client 10.1.1.20]
[Mon Apr 11 09:59:25 2005] maint.pl: Use of uninitialized
value in pattern match (m//) at
/home/bb/cgi-secure/maint.pl line 222. 

My acks aren't working either.  Not through ack menu pick or email reply's.
I'm getting the same "maint.pl: Use of uninitialized value..." error, but
the times don't correspond with my ack attempts.  I do see the acks getting
logged in the procmail.log file, but they're not ack'ing.  This was
happening before and after the 4.0.2 upgrade.

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David Stuffle
Delta Faucet Company


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