On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 02:05:33PM +1100, Campbell McLeay wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am having troubles in getting hostmon-client to cat data
> out to the server upon connection. Hostmon is generating
> the data fine on the client (and it is readable by user 'snips'),
> but when connecting to the port via telnet on port 5355, it
> doesn't print out the collected data. As such, the server reports:
>
> server server _0001 14:45 DataAge 550 Critical
>
> Am I correct in assuming that a telnet connection to the hostmon
> port will actually cat the data out? In debug mode, hostmon
> client shows the connection arriving ok, but not catting data. I seem to remember
> that the way to this worked at other installations I have seen
> is to run hostmon-client from inetd, and run cat /tmp/hostmon.tmp
> on connection. But I presume that is not the way it is done any more.
>
> [...]
I'm finally catching up on the mailing list (been a while since I've
read it regularly), but I didn't see this answered, so...
I'm /guessing/ here that you haven't set SNIPS_LOGHOST in hostman_client.
By default, you should be able to connect to it from localhost (try
doing a "telnet 0 5355" from the host). My script, for example looks
similar to the following:
-- begin
[...]
$SNIPS_LOGHOST = "snips.loosenut.com" unless $SNIPS_LOGHOST; # SET_THIS
@permithosts = qw(127.0.0.1 localhost) unless @permithosts;
[...]
-- end
Hope that helps...
Russell
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