Problem since upgrading to 4.2.0 from 4.1 - "data flooding from" 🔗 link

I've just upgraded my Hobbit server from 4.1 to 4.2 (on a Gentoo
2006.1 host), having had a need for "Disabled until OK" :)

The trouble that I now have is that reports from the client part of
the server install are never making it through - all tests have turned
purple and the log is full of "data flooding from 127.0.0.1, closing
connection".

I even reverted the client directory to the default from the
installer, with no change.

Pointers to how to further diagnose this, or even better resolve it,
appreciated.

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Rob MacGregor
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        doesn't become a monster.                  Friedrich Nietzsche

Hi

my msgs test is always green, even if there is a warning in the /var/log/messages file

I configured "hobbit-clients" like this:

DEFAULT
        LOG     %.* %(fatal|error)   COLOR=red
        LOG     %.* warning          COLOR=yellow

HOST=s068a300
        LOG     %.* %(fatal|error)   COLOR=red
        LOG     %.* warning          COLOR=yellow


The "client-local" is configured like this:

[s068a300]
log:/var/log/messages:10240
ignore MARK
log:/var/log/user:10240

The two logfiles appear in the messages column, but the line 
.2007/08/17 14:22:54][s068a300:kern.warning] kernel: program nmhs is using a deprecated SCSI ioctl, please convert it to SG_IO

does not trigger the yellow color, even if there is a "warning" string in this line

Also the is a little output problem: if the log contain very long lines some characters where cut off at the _beginning_ of the line.
If I monitor more than one logfile it not very nice to have them all on one page. Is there a possibility to only display lines which trigger a warning or error, so that the page is empty for errorfree logs. Another nice thing would be to put every log into a single subpage under the log summary.

Thorsten Erdmann
ITI/EP68
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On 8/17/07, Rob MacGregor <user-07c9d92ae079@xymon.invalid> wrote:

The problem eventually turned out to be the volume of output from the
ps command.  We have java server software on the host in question,
with a *very* long command line - each line totals over 4K characters
- and over 900 processes.  The total output of ps came to some 4
million characters.

By truncating the output of ps at an arbitrary 132 characters that
output was cut to about 140 thousand characters and hobbit was happy
once more :)

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