A late reply for this, but better late than never ...
On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 04:10:08PM +1000, Kevin Pye wrote:
There appears to be a bug in bbproxy which should probably be fixed
sometime. When a message is to be sent to several servers, and the
transfer to one sender fails, then the transfer to the other servers
isn't attempted. (The state machine jumps straight to the exit state
rather than looping back to send the message to the next server.) I
first noticed this in an older version of bbproxy, but a quick glance
at the code suggests it might still be a problem.
I think you're right, the bbproxy code hasn't changed for quite some
time.
Also in bbproxy, I'd like to see an option where the proxy reports can
be sent to a different list of servers from where ordinary status
reports are sent. In my case for example, I am using bbproxy mainly
for load balancing on the server where bbd (not yet hobbitd) runs, so
it only send messages to the local server. However I would like the
reports sent to both our servers. I think I sent you some code back in
January which attempted to do this, but it probably got lost in the
ether somewhere. I could resurrect it if you like.
I believe I still have your patch lying around, but it caused some
problems for me as I recall. I'll see if I can get it working.
Regarding the hobbit client, one of my main complaints against various
other monitoring/management tools as that they run large complex
processes as root with links deep into the OS. I wouldn't like to see
the hobbit client go down that path.
Oh no, that way lies madness. Running big, incomprehensible programs as
root (sendmail, brrr....) is not on my list of things I want to do.
Most Hobbit stuff - server or client - runs just fine with ordinary
user privileges. Lets keep it that way.
Regards,
Henrik