RC5 available on sourceforge 🔗 link

To clear the list of patches, I've packed up an RC5 which is now
available http://sourceforge.net/project/hobbitmon/ and on
http://www.hswn.dk/beta/

This solves all of the problems that have been reported with alerts in
RC4. It also fixes the crashes that have been reported with the
hobbitd_alert module, and when very large status messages were sent to
hobbitd.

Since I'm off to Linuxforum 2005 - www.linuxforum.dk - I probably will
not be as much online this week-end as I usually am. So enjoy this
release and don't break anything important, please :-)

Henrik


Changes from RC-4 -> RC-5
Bugfixes:
* Very large status- or data-messages could overflow the shared
memory segment used for communication between hobbitd and the
worker modules. This would cause hobbitd to crash. Such messages
are now truncated before being passed off to worker modules.

* hobbitd_alert no longer crashes when trying to send a message.

* Recovery messages were sent, even when no alert message had
been sent. This caused unexpected "green" messages. 

* The router dependency "route" tag handling was broken.


Improvements:
* The "starthobbit.sh" script now refuses to start Hobbit if it
is already running.

* The "starthobbit.sh" script was renamed to just "hobbit.sh".
It now also supports a "reload" command that causes hobbitd
to reload the bb-hosts file.

* The bb-hist CGI now supports the NAME tag for naming hosts.

* The history CGI's showed the Host- and service-names twice 
when in Hobbit mode. Once is enough.

* A "NOALERT" setting in hobbit-alerts.cfg was implemented, so
it is easier to define recipients who only get notice-messages
and not alerts.

* The input parameter check for CGI scripts was relaxed, so that
special characters are permitted - e.g. when passing a custom
hostname to a CGI. Since we do not use any shell scripts in 
CGI handling, this should not cause any security problem.


Building Hobbit:
* The /opt/sfw directory is now searched for libraries (Solaris).

* The order of libssl and libcrypto has been swapped, to avoid
linker problems on some platforms.

Lars

Henrik Stoerner <user-ce4a2c883f75@xymon.invalid> wrote:

Från: Henrik Stoerner[SMTP:user-ce4a2c883f75@xymon.invalid]
Skickat: den 4 mars 2005 08:04:14
Till: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Ämne: [hobbit] RC5 available on sourceforge
Automatiskt vidarebefordrat av en regel

To clear the list of patches, I've packed up an RC5 which is now
available http://sourceforge.net/project/hobbitmon/ and on
http://www.hswn.dk/beta/

This solves all of the problems that have been reported with alerts in
RC4. It also fixes the crashes that have been reported with the
hobbitd_alert module, and when very large status messages were sent to
hobbitd.

Since I'm off to Linuxforum 2005 - www.linuxforum.dk - I probably will
not be as much online this week-end as I usually am. So enjoy this
release and don't break anything important, please :-)

Henrik


Changes from RC-4 -> RC-5
Bugfixes:
* Very large status- or data-messages could overflow the shared
memory segment used for communication between hobbitd and the
worker modules. This would cause hobbitd to crash. Such messages
are now truncated before being passed off to worker modules.

* hobbitd_alert no longer crashes when trying to send a message.

* Recovery messages were sent, even when no alert message had
been sent. This caused unexpected "green" messages. 

* The router dependency "route" tag handling was broken.


Improvements:
* The "starthobbit.sh" script now refuses to start Hobbit if it
is already running.

* The "starthobbit.sh" script was renamed to just "hobbit.sh".
It now also supports a "reload" command that causes hobbitd
to reload the bb-hosts file.

* The bb-hist CGI now supports the NAME tag for naming hosts.

* The history CGI's showed the Host- and service-names twice 
when in Hobbit mode. Once is enough.

* A "NOALERT" setting in hobbit-alerts.cfg was implemented, so
it is easier to define recipients who only get notice-messages
and not alerts.

* The input parameter check for CGI scripts was relaxed, so that
special characters are permitted - e.g. when passing a custom
hostname to a CGI. Since we do not use any shell scripts in 
CGI handling, this should not cause any security problem.


Building Hobbit:
* The /opt/sfw directory is now searched for libraries (Solaris).

* The order of libssl and libcrypto has been swapped, to avoid
linker problems on some platforms.

hobbitd.c:2480: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
hobbitd.c:2480: error: for each function it appears in.)

On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 08:30:42 +0100 (CET), lars ebeling <user-b8ea1138b488@xymon.invalid> wrote:

cc -g -O -D_REENTRANT -DHPUX -DMAXMSG=32768 -DBBDPORTNUMBER=1984 -I.
-I/home/hob
bit-4.0-RC5/include -c -o hobbitd.o hobbitd.c                                  hobbitd.c: In function émain':                                                 hobbitd.c:2480: error: éPATH_MAX' undeclared (first use in this function)      hobbitd.c:2480: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once       hobbitd.c:2480: error: for each function it appears in.)                       makeÄ1Å: *** Ähobbitd.oÅ Error 1                                               makeÄ1Å: Leaving directory é/home/hobbit-4.0-RC5/hobbitd'                      make: *** Ähobbitd-buildÅ Error 2                                                Regards
 Lars

Henrik Stoerner <user-ce4a2c883f75@xymon.invalid> wrote: 

Från: Henrik Stoerner[SMTP:user-ce4a2c883f75@xymon.invalid]
Skickat: den 4 mars 2005 08:04:14
Till: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Ämne: [hobbit] RC5 available on sourceforge
Automatiskt vidarebefordrat av en regel
To clear the list of patches, I've packed up an RC5 which is now
available http://sourceforge.net/project/hobbitmon/ and on
http://www.hswn.dk/beta/

This solves all of the problems that have been reported with alerts in
RC4. It also fixes the crashes that have been reported with the
hobbitd_alert module, and when very large status messages were sent to
hobbitd.

Since I'm off to Linuxforum 2005 - www.linuxforum.dk - I probably will
not be as much online this week-end as I usually am. So enjoy this
release and don't break anything important, please :-)

Henrik

Bugfixes:
* Very large status- or data-messages could overflow the shared
memory segment used for communication between hobbitd and the
worker modules. This would cause hobbitd to crash. Such messages
are now truncated before being passed off to worker modules.

* hobbitd_alert no longer crashes when trying to send a message.

* Recovery messages were sent, even when no alert message had
been sent. This caused unexpected "green" messages. 
* The router dependency "route" tag handling was broken.


Improvements:
* The "starthobbit.sh" script now refuses to start Hobbit if it
is already running.

* The "starthobbit.sh" script was renamed to just "hobbit.sh".
It now also supports a "reload" command that causes hobbitd
to reload the bb-hosts file.

* The bb-hist CGI now supports the NAME tag for naming hosts.

* The history CGI's showed the Host- and service-names twice when in Hobbit mode. Once is enough.

* A "NOALERT" setting in hobbit-alerts.cfg was implemented, so
it is easier to define recipients who only get notice-messages
and not alerts.

* The input parameter check for CGI scripts was relaxed, so that
special characters are permitted - e.g. when passing a custom
hostname to a CGI. Since we do not use any shell scripts in CGI handling, this should not cause any security problem.


Building Hobbit:
* The /opt/sfw directory is now searched for libraries (Solaris).

* The order of libssl and libcrypto has been swapped, to avoid
linker problems on some platforms.

On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 23:35:32 -0800, Brian Lynch <user-0420823115a8@xymon.invalid> wrote:

The same error occurs on Solaris:

gcc -g -O2 -Wall -Wno-unused -D_REENTRANT -DHAVE_RPCENT -DMAXMSG=32768
-DBBDPORTNUMBER=1984 -I. -I/opt/sysadmin/src/hobbit-4.0-RC5/include -c
-o hobbitd.o hobbitd.c
hobbitd.c: In function `main':
hobbitd.c:2480: error: `PATH_MAX' undeclared (first use in this function)
hobbitd.c:2480: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
hobbitd.c:2480: error: for each function it appears in.)
make[1]: *** [hobbitd.o] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/opt/sysadmin/src/hobbit-4.0-RC5/hobbitd'
make: *** [hobbitd-build] Error 2
bash-2.03#


On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 08:30:42 +0100 (CET), lars ebeling <user-b8ea1138b488@xymon.invalid> wrote:

cc -g -O -D_REENTRANT -DHPUX -DMAXMSG=32768 -DBBDPORTNUMBER=1984 -I.
-I/home/hob
bit-4.0-RC5/include -c -o hobbitd.o hobbitd.c

hobbitd.c: In function émain':

hobbitd.c:2480: error: éPATH_MAX' undeclared (first use in this function)

hobbitd.c:2480: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once

hobbitd.c:2480: error: for each function it appears in.)

makeÄ1Å: *** Ähobbitd.oÅ Error 1

makeÄ1Å: Leaving directory é/home/hobbit-4.0-RC5/hobbitd'

make: *** Ähobbitd-buildÅ Error 2


Regards

Lars

Henrik Stoerner <user-ce4a2c883f75@xymon.invalid> wrote:

Från: Henrik Stoerner[SMTP:user-ce4a2c883f75@xymon.invalid]
Skickat: den 4 mars 2005 08:04:14
Till: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Ämne: [hobbit] RC5 available on sourceforge
Automatiskt vidarebefordrat av en regel

To clear the list of patches, I've packed up an RC5 which is now
available http://sourceforge.net/project/hobbitmon/ and on
http://www.hswn.dk/beta/

This solves all of the problems that have been reported with alerts in
RC4. It also fixes the crashes that have been reported with the
hobbitd_alert module, and when very large status messages were sent to
hobbitd.

Since I'm off to Linuxforum 2005 - www.linuxforum.dk - I probably will
not be as much online this week-end as I usually am. So enjoy this
release and don't break anything important, please :-)

Henrik


Changes from R C-4 -> RC-5
Bugfixes:
* Very large status- or data-messages could overflow the shared
memory segment used for communication between hobbitd and the
worker modules. This would cause hobbitd to crash. Such messages
are now truncated before being passed off to worker modules.

* hobbitd_alert no longer crashes when trying to send a message.

* Recovery messages were sent, even when no alert message had
been sent. This caused unexpected "green" messages.

* The router dependency "route" tag handling was broken.


Improvements:
* The "starthobbit.sh" script now refuses to start Hobbit if it
is already running.

* The "starthobbit.sh" script was renamed to just "hobbit.sh".
It now also supports a "reload" command that causes hobbitd
to reload the bb-hosts file.

* The bb-hist CGI now supports the NAME tag for naming hosts.

* The history CGI's showed the Host- and service-names twice
when in Hobbit mode. Once is enough.

* A "NOALERT" setting in hobbit-alerts.cfg was implemented, so
it is easier to define recipients who only get notice-messages
and not alerts.

* The input parameter check for CGI scripts was relaxed, so that
special characters are permitted - e.g. when passing a custom
hostname to a CGI. Since we do not use any shell scripts in
CGI handling, this should not cause any security problem.


Building Hobbit:
* The /opt/sfw directory is now searched for libraries (Solaris).

* The order of libssl and libcrypto has been swapped, to avoid
linker problems on some platforms.

Automatiskt vidarebefordrat av en regel

Added the following definition to the generated makefile, 'Makefile',
to get it to compile. Henrik, feel free to correct this.

PATH_MAX = 256

and edited build/Makefile.rules to add in the path max statement

CFLAGS += -DMAXMSG=$(MAXMSG) -DBBDPORTNUMBER=$(BBPORT)
-DPATH_MAX=$(PATH_MAX) -I. -I$(BUILDTOPDIR)/include

- Brian

On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 23:35:32 -0800, Brian Lynch 
wrote:

The same error occurs on Solaris:

gcc -g -O2 -Wall -Wno-unused -D_REENTRANT -DHAVE_RPCENT -DMAXMSG=32768
-DBBDPORTNUMBER=1984 -I. -I/opt/sysadmin/src/hobbit-4.0-RC5/include -c
-o hobbitd.o hobbitd.c
hobbitd.c: In function `main':
hobbitd.c:2480: error: `PATH_MAX' undeclared (first use in this function)
hobbitd.c:2480: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
hobbitd.c:2480: error: for each function it appears in.)
make[1]: *** [hobbitd.o] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/opt/sysadmin/src/hobbit-4.0-RC5/hobbitd'
make: *** [hobbitd-build] Error 2
bash-2.03#


On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 08:30:42 +0100 (CET), lars ebeling wrote:

cc -g -O -D_REENTRANT -DHPUX -DMAXMSG=32768 -DBBDPORTNUMBER=1984 -I.
-I/home/hob
bit-4.0-RC5/include -c -o hobbitd.o hobbitd.c

hobbitd.c: In function émain':

hobbitd.c:2480: error: éPATH_MAX' undeclared (first use in this function)

hobbitd.c:2480: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once

hobbitd.c:2480: error: for each function it appears in.)

makeÄ1Å: *** Ähobbitd.oÅ Error 1

makeÄ1Å: Leaving directory é/home/hobbit-4.0-RC5/hobbitd'

make: *** Ähobbitd-buildÅ Error 2


Regards

Lars

Henrik Stoerner wrote:

Från: Henrik Stoerner[SMTP:user-ce4a2c883f75@xymon.invalid]
Skickat: den 4 mars 2005 08:04:14
Till: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Ämne: [hobbit] RC5 available on sourceforge
Automatiskt vidarebefordrat av en regel

To clear the list of patches, I've packed up an RC5 which is now
available http://sourceforge.net/project/hobbitmon/ and on
http://www.hswn.dk/beta/

This solves all of the problems that have been reported with alerts in
RC4. It also fixes the crashes that have been reported with the
hobbitd_alert module, and when very large status messages were sent to
hobbitd.

Since I'm off to Linuxforum 2005 - www.linuxforum.dk - I probably will
not be as much online this week-end as I usually am. So enjoy this
release and don't break anything important, please :-)

Henrik


Changes from R C-4 -> RC-5
Bugfixes:
* Very large status- or data-messages could overflow the shared
memory segment used for communication between hobbitd and the
worker modules. This would cause hobbitd to crash. Such messages
are now truncated before being passed off to worker modules.

* hobbitd_alert no longer crashes when trying to send a message.

* Recovery messages were sent, even when no alert message had
been sent. This caused unexpected "green" messages.

* The router dependency "route" tag handling was broken.


Improvements:
* The "starthobbit.sh" script now refuses to start Hobbit if it
is already running.

* The "starthobbit.sh" script was renamed to just "hobbit.sh".
It now also supports a "reload" command that causes hobbitd
to reload the bb-hosts file.

* The bb-hist CGI now supports the NAME tag for naming hosts.

* The history CGI's showed the Host- and service-names twice
when in Hobbit mode. Once is enough.

* A "NOALERT" setting in hobbit-alerts.cfg was implemented, so
it is easier to define recipients who only get notice-messages
and not alerts.

* The input parameter check for CGI scripts was relaxed, so that
special characters are permitted - e.g. when passing a custom
hostname to a CGI. Since we do not use any shell scripts in
CGI handling, this should not cause any security problem.


Building Hobbit:
* The /opt/sfw directory is now searched for libraries (Solaris).

* The order of libssl and libcrypto has been swapped, to avoid
linker problems on some platforms.

On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 11:35:32PM -0800, Brian Lynch wrote:

The same error occurs on Solaris:

gcc -g -O2 -Wall -Wno-unused -D_REENTRANT -DHAVE_RPCENT -DMAXMSG=32768
-DBBDPORTNUMBER=1984 -I. -I/opt/sysadmin/src/hobbit-4.0-RC5/include -c
-o hobbitd.o hobbitd.c
hobbitd.c: In function `main':
hobbitd.c:2480: error: `PATH_MAX' undeclared (first use in this
function)

On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 09:18:52AM +0100, Henrik Stoerner wrote:

On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 11:35:32PM -0800, Brian Lynch wrote:

The same error occurs on Solaris:

gcc -g -O2 -Wall -Wno-unused -D_REENTRANT -DHAVE_RPCENT -DMAXMSG=32768
-DBBDPORTNUMBER=1984 -I. -I/opt/sysadmin/src/hobbit-4.0-RC5/include -c
-o hobbitd.o hobbitd.c
hobbitd.c: In function `main':
hobbitd.c:2480: error: `PATH_MAX' undeclared (first use in this
function)

Just ain't my lucky day ... there's a missing 
  #include <limits.h>
at the top of hobbitd.c

I won't call it RC6, but I'll update the release-file.

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Henrik Stoerner [mailto:user-ce4a2c883f75@xymon.invalid] 
Sent: vrijdag 4 maart 2005 9:24
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: Re: [hobbit] RC5 available on sourceforge

On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 09:18:52AM +0100, Henrik Stoerner wrote:

On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 11:35:32PM -0800, Brian Lynch wrote:

The same error occurs on Solaris:

gcc -g -O2 -Wall -Wno-unused -D_REENTRANT -DHAVE_RPCENT

-DMAXMSG=32768

-DBBDPORTNUMBER=1984 -I. -I/opt/sysadmin/src/hobbit-4.0-RC5/include

-c

-o hobbitd.o hobbitd.c
hobbitd.c: In function `main':
hobbitd.c:2480: error: `PATH_MAX' undeclared (first use in this
function)

Just ain't my lucky day ... there's a missing 
  #include <limits.h>
at the top of hobbitd.c

I won't call it RC6, but I'll update the release-file.

The sourceforge.net tar-file has been updated. My local version will
be in 10 secs.


Henrik

On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 09:30:29AM +0100, Wim De Houwer wrote:

Still having problems using the new version:

hobbitd.c: In function `main':
hobbitd.c:2488: parse error before `*'