You can look at hobbitclient.sh in hobbit's bin directory on your client
machine. It's just a short shell script. On my version of hobbit
(4.2.0 standard, no patches), the part of hobbitclient.sh of interest
starts at line 68, where it's messing with $LOGFETCHCFG. That's your
downloaded client-local.cfg stuff.
From: Peters, Ron [mailto:user-30d0254dcc64@xymon.invalid]
Sent: Monday, June 25, 2007 4:26 PM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: RE: RE: [hobbit] client-local.cfg not propagating
Well, the client is actually installed vi cfengine. It pulls down the
files into the hobbit directory with proper permissions and it does this
on all of our clients. This client is the same OS/config as the last
one I installed but it is having the problem. I've also noted that the
client has tons of free disk.
The listing in the client-local.cfg isn't specific to client name, it is
based on a group (linux in this case).
Is there any way to manually duplicate what the client is doing when
downloading this info to get some debugging output?
From: Haertig, David F (Dave) [mailto:user-68874b735d77@xymon.invalid]
Sent: Monday, June 25, 2007 3:13 PM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: RE: [hobbit] client-local.cfg not propagating
Possibly filespace or permissions problems in the client computer's
hobbit tmp directory?
You don't have a typo in client-local.cfg where you mispelled the name
of the client you want to do the downloading?
From: Peters, Ron [mailto:user-30d0254dcc64@xymon.invalid]
Sent: Monday, June 25, 2007 3:58 PM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: [hobbit] client-local.cfg not propagating
Hello all,
I have a client that isn't receiving the client-local.cfg information.
The 'files' and 'msgs' categories are reported as 'clear' since there is
no data on which to base a status.
I've re-installed the client, uninstalled and copied the directory from
a working client, and re-installed a working client to validate that it
isn't a server issue. What would cause a client to NOT download this
configuration?
Any thoughts?
Thanks