deleting history of a test 🔗 link

Hi,

I had added a test that after some thinking was not reaally needed.
I decided to delete it, and its history.
I looked at tips and tricks, and tried to run '~/server/bin/bb 127.0.0.1 "drop HOSTNAME dns" ', which did not work apparently.
So I went into the ~/data directory, and deleted in hist, histlogs and logs all the data concerning this test.
However, on the main page, I still had the test, which was no longer updated, but still existed.

It took me some time to find that in ~/server/tmp/ there is a file named hobbitd.chk which does not disappear when you stop/start hobbit.
Deleting this file apparently forced hobbit to recreate it, and this time my deleted test had disappeared.

Is that the expected behaviour ?

Regards, and keep up the great work you re doing on Hobbit.

Stephane


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On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 10:09:02AM +0200, Stephane Caminade wrote:

It should have worked. Note that it may take up to one minute before it
disappears from the web page (they only get refreshed once a minute when
bbgen runs).

This file holds the information that Hobbit normally keeps in memory
while running - e.g. the latest color of each status, when it was last 
updated etc. The whole point of this file is to maintain the current
status across a restart of Hobbit.

Obviously, since your test was no longer being reported to hobbitd.

Is that the expected behaviour ?

The core issue here is why the "drop" command did not work. The most
common reason for this, I'm sorry to say, is mis-typing of the host-
or column-name.


Henrik