[patch] "config" download area is now a setting 🔗 link

Hi Henrik,

here is a small but convenient patch, that helps keep the etc/ directory
of the hobbit server tidy.

Something handy would be to have a automatic suffix-with-hostname before
opening the file, and fallback on the straight requested filename. That
is, requesting bb-mysql.cfg from "foo.bar.com" would search for
"bb-mysql.cfg-foo.bar.com" and then for "bb-mysql.cfg". I may add this
early next week if you didn't already :).


Regards,

-- 
Charles Goyard - user-98f9625a7a59@xymon.invalid - (+33) 1 45 38 01 31
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--- upstream-2006-10-03/hobbitd/hobbitd.c	2006-11-24 17:18:57.000000000 +0100
+++ cvf/hobbitd/hobbitd.c	2006-12-01 18:30:49.000000000 +0100
@@ -1910,7 +1910,7 @@
 	strbuffer_t *inbuf, *result;
 
 	dbgprintf("-> get_config %s\n", fn);
-	sprintf(fullfn, "%s/etc/%s", xgetenv("BBHOME"), fn);
+	sprintf(fullfn, "%s/%s", xgetenv("CLIENTEXTCFG"), fn);
 	fd = stackfopen(fullfn, "r", NULL);
 	if (fd == NULL) {
 		errprintf("Config file %s not found\n", fn);
--- upstream-2006-10-03/lib/environ.c	2006-11-24 17:18:08.000000000 +0100
+++ cvf/lib/environ.c	2006-12-01 18:29:43.000000000 +0100
@@ -89,6 +89,7 @@
 	{ "BBHOSTHISTLOG", "TRUE" },
 	{ "SAVESTATUSLOG", "TRUE" },
 	{ "CLIENTLOGS", "$BBVAR/hostdata" },
+	{ "CLIENTEXTCFG", "$BBHOME/etc" },
 	{ "MAILC", "mail" },
 	{ "MAIL", "$MAILC -s" },
 	{ "SVCCODES", "disk:100,cpu:200,procs:300,svcs:350,msgs:400,conn:500,http:600,dns:800,smtp:725,telnet:723,ftp:721,pop:810,pop3:810,pop-3:810,ssh:722,imap:843,ssh1:722,ssh2:722,imap2:843,imap3:843,imap4:843,pop2:809,pop-2:809,nntp:819,test:901" },
--- upstream-2006-10-03/common/hobbitserver.cfg.5	2006-11-24 17:18:09.000000000 +0100
+++ cvf/common/hobbitserver.cfg.5	2006-12-01 18:20:16.000000000 +0100
@@ -183,6 +183,13 @@
 module.
 Default: $BBVAR/hostdata/
 
+.IP CLIENTEXTCFG
+Directory for storing client-side configuration files. They can be
+retrieved from within extension scripts with the "config" command of
+the
+.I bb(1)
+utility.
+Default: $BBHOME/etc
 
 .SH SYSTEM FILES

From R1 we know see a number about users on bb mailing list about 2000

Henrik, can you to some grep,sort and wc to find out how big is the hb users 
community ?

R1: http://bb4.com/product_features.asp


T.J. Yang

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On Fri, Dec 01, 2006 at 12:55:45PM -0600, T.J. Yang wrote:

415 subscribers to the mailing list currently, and another 100 that are
only on the announce-list. Total of 513.

It is also interesting that there have been about 1200 downloads of Hobbit from Sourceforge every month since April:
http://sourceforge.net/project/stats/detail.php?group_id=128058&ugn=hobbitmon&type=prdownload&mode=year&year=2006&package_id=140220
There were over 2000 downloads in August, but that was probably due to the release of Hobbit 4.2.0.

I dont think that each and every one of the 500 subscribers to the mailing lists go and fetch a fresh copy of Hobbit every two weeks. So the
community of Hobbit users is probably somewhere into a few thousand people.

(Which, by the way, is a lot more than I had ever anticipated :-))


Regards,
Henrik

Maybe you shouldn't have made hobbit so well :P
Jason.

-----Original Message-----
From: Henrik Stoerner [mailto:user-ce4a2c883f75@xymon.invalid] 
Sent: 01 December 2006 22:05
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: Re: [hobbit] Number of hobbit user community

On Fri, Dec 01, 2006 at 12:55:45PM -0600, T.J. Yang wrote:

2000

415 subscribers to the mailing list currently, and another 100 that are
only on the announce-list. Total of 513.

It is also interesting that there have been about 1200 downloads of 
Hobbit from Sourceforge every month since April:

http://sourceforge.net/project/stats/detail.php?group_id=128058&ugn=hobb
itmon&type=prdownload&mode=year&year=2006&package_id=140220

There were over 2000 downloads in August, but that was probably due to 
the release of Hobbit 4.2.0.

I dont think that each and every one of the 500 subscribers to the
mailing 
lists go and fetch a fresh copy of Hobbit every two weeks. So the
community of Hobbit users is probably somewhere into a few thousand
people.

(Which, by the way, is a lot more than I had ever anticipated :-))


Regards,
Henrik

Hi,

Charles Goyard wrote :

Looking again at the documentation, I see there's a "download" command
in bb.

So, we have three ways of getting extension scripts configuration :

- with "bb config"  (from the etc/ directory)
- with "bb download" (from the downloads/ directory)
- by adding data in etc/client-local.cfg

Since it is not desirable to get all hosts config from a security
standpoint (that can be database password and the like), having one file
per client looks nice.

The patch I submitted may break some setups that expect to have access
to bb-hosts and the like.

Henrik, what do you recommend for storing and fetching extension script
configuration ?


Regards,

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Charles Goyard - user-98f9625a7a59@xymon.invalid - (+33) 1 45 38 01 31