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I'm trying to make that darn white ports dot go away (until Henrik adds the "noports" option) on my freshly installed hobbit server (latest snapshot).

Snippet of my hobbit-clients.cfg
HOST=my-hostname-1
     PORT LOCAL=%([.:]22^) STATE=LISTEN "TEXT=SSH listener" color="yellow"
     PORT LOCAL=%([.:]22^) STATE=ESTABLISHED MAX=10 TRACK=ssh "TEXT=SSH" color="yellow"
     PORT LOCAL=%([.:]8080^) STATE=LISTEN "TEXT=Apache SSL Server" color="yellow"
     PORT LOCAL=%([.:]8080^) STATE=ESTABLISHED MAX=20 TRACK=apache TEXT=apache color="yellow"

Do I have something wrong there? I still have the white dot of doom :)
Here is a snippet of the actual netstat output that is displayed on the ports page:

tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:22                  0.0.0.0:*                   LISTEN tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:8080                0.0.0.0:*                   LISTEN

I think I noticed why this isn't working on my new server. After installing the server I had all of the statuses that one would normally only expect to see if you had the client installed (cpu, memory, msgs, etc). So I assumed that the client was running also, but it's not.  Do I need to compile and run the client as well on the server, just to get the ports checks to work?

Charles Jones wrote:

On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 09:15:09AM -0700, Charles Jones wrote:

On the Hobbit server, the client is normally launched by the
hobbitlaunch program running all of the "server" tasks. This is just so
that you won't need to run a hobbitlaunch separately for the server-
and client-side stuff. So in your ~hobbit/server/etc/hobbitlaunch.cfg
you'll probably find a [hobbitclient] section:

	[hobbitclient]
		ENVFILE /usr/lib/hobbit/client/etc/hobbitclient.cfg
		NEEDS hobbitd
		CMD /usr/lib/hobbit/client/bin/hobbitclient.sh
		LOGFILE $BBSERVERLOGS/hobbitclient.log
		INTERVAL 5m

Now - about the "ports" status you have. Your regex is wrong:
   PORT LOCAL=%([.:]22^) STATE=LISTEN "TEXT=SSH listener" color="yellow"
The caret ^ means "beginning of data". You want "end of data", so it should
be a dollar-sign. So that rule should be
   PORT LOCAL=%([.:]22$) STATE=LISTEN "TEXT=SSH listener" color="yellow"

And yes - I know you probably just copied that from the example in the
hobbit-clients.cfg file. I've fixed those now :-)

(In general, for problems with the PCRE regular expressions there is a
utility shipped with the PCRE libraries, "pcretest", which lets you
try out the regular expressions against some data. Quite useful when
you're not a long-time Perl hacker).


Regards,
Henrik