Re: {bb} Reversing the http test - a bug?

John Horne wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have had 2 servers each running a web service, and monitored that it
> was running using BB. In the bb-hosts file I had entries like
> 'http://...'.
> I now want to reverse those tests to ensure that no-one restarts the web
> services. I have changed the bb-hosts entries to just '!http'. However,
> this does not seem to be working. It shows red on the monitor and BB
> says 'http - No connection'.
> 
> Looking through old messages, it seems that this has been a problem for
> other people. I have an entry in /etc/services for 'http' on port 80, so
> that's not the problem. What I have noticed is that in the BBOUT file I
> get these messages:
> 
>     Mon Sep 15 12:50:59 2008 bbnet Unknown host: http
> 
> It seems that BB is not handling the '!http' correctly. Is this (still)
> a bug? Does anyone have reverse http tests working correctly? If not,
> then I can spend a little while looking in to this to try and see what
> is going on.
> 
> I should add, were using BB 1.9i on a CentOS 5.2 box.

Hey John.  I don't think reversing http tests work under 1.9i.

I'd set up another service in /etc/services (web) and reverse
that one instead.
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