Comment 32 for bug 1103428

Dear Mr. Brun,

on Friday, 4. April 2014, 18:07:05 you wrote:
> Just installed xymon on ubuntu server .... used the apt-get install to
> get the latest, so I'm at 4.3.0-0.beta2. I have the exact problem as
> titusx described. The history works if I manually edit the URL. I
> see the patch, but my question is what do I do with it...how do I apply
> it to my system? Thanks.

The patches discussed here have not been taken into the offical ubuntu
repositories yet. The bug is now in for more than a year and destroys some
important features of the xymon webfrontend.

The Bug is fixed in the xymon packages of Ubuntu 13.4 (raring) and later, by
modifying much more code than the patches showed here. But this packages also
are containing modifications not suitable for a bugfix version of packages and
are requiring lots of modifications when upgrading in a complex xymon
environment.

The most importent changes are taking:
/etc/hobbit to /etc/xymon
/etc/hobbit/hobbitlauch.d to /etc/launch.d
/etc/hobbit/bb-hosts to /etc/xymon/hosts
/usr/lib/hobbit to /usr/lib/xymon
/var/lib/hobbit to /var/lib/xymon

All Config-Variables in hobbitserver.cfg and hobbit-client.cfg formerly
containing the word HOBBIT are changed to XYMON. There might be some more
changing, since I had a look at this new packages, but I'm still using only
the old ones.

If you are installing a new xymon server this packages or even the ubuntu
versions using it might be a good choice. Starting with one of these newer
packages might prevent you from changing all the stuff mentioned above.

But I think it should be clear to everyone what this means to existing
installations.

How to use the patches:

The Patches from #29 an #30 are applied to the packages for precise and lucid
by copying them into the debian/patches of the source code and appending them
to debian/patches/serial.

The Packages resulting from this, including the source-code can be found in my
ppa:

https://launchpad.net/~lk-x/+archive/ppa

Hope this was helpful.

Kind regards,
 Lars

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