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Feedback from running 4.1.1 snapshot on FreeBSD 5.4

list Andy France
Thu, 18 Aug 2005 11:41:28 +1200
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"Grilli, Laurent" wrote on 18/08/2005 10:39:45:
Hi all,

Few things that we notice :

1) Error during the make install

cd etcfiles; ../../build/merge-lines hobbitcgi.cfg
/home/hobbit/server/etc/hobbitcgi.cfg
cd etcfiles; ../../build/merge-sects hobbitlaunch.cfg
/home/hobbit/server/etc/hobbitlaunch.cfg larrdstatus=rrdstatus
larrddata=rrddata
merge-sects in free(): error: junk pointer, too high to make sense
Abort trap (core dumped)
gmake[1]: *** [install-cfg] Error 134
gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/root/software/hobbit-4.1.1/hobbitd'
gmake: *** [install-hobbitd] Error 2

Workaround :
Change manualy the occurence of larrd to rrd in hobbitlaunch.cfg

Just as an addition to this, I had to do exactly the same thing when trying
to update 4.0.4 to 4.1.1 on my Solaris 9 x86 server.
I can't recall the exact error, but I did get a core dump too (probably
long since deleted :-)

2) bbhostgrep with the following tags:

we have a lot of nokia appliance that we poll for snmp via the snmp
script, the devices don't reply for icmp, so we need to have this line in
our bb-hosts

x.x.x.x    nokiavpn   # testip noconn snmp

when we execute bbhostgrep snmp, it return no value. The only way
actually is to put

x.x.x.x    nokiavpn   # testip noping snmp

but we would like to not have the conn test (we need testip as the boxes
don't have a fqdn)

3)   hobbit client

About the disk,
The release 5.4 got devfs (2 entries show 100%), so the line with
df should look like:  df -H -tnonfs,nullfs,cd9660,procfs,devfs

Not quite sure about vmstat,
In freebsd you can use -w for wait -c for count, so should it be
vmstat -w 300 -c 2 instead of vmstat 300 2,
also the sleep command in Freebsd take argument in second so sleep
5 is for 5 second , was it expected to wait 5 minutes ?

Thanks for this great product,
Laurent Grilli
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