[Labs-l] Outage in progress

Fri Sep 25 15:09:21 UTC 2015

Maximilian Doerr <maximilian.doerr at gmail.com> wrote:

> Looks something still hasn't been restored because big
> brother is still spamming me.  Speaking of which, can big
> brother be shut off during outages?  It really drives my new
> email count to 200 when something breaks over there.  Better
> yet let's shut off the emails from big brother and have it
> write to a log file instead.  It's making my inbox extremely
> hard to read.

> [...]

That's a different issue.  There should be only one instance
of bigbrother (or, as a live test of mine, BigBrotherMoni-
tor) in all of Tools, i. e. on one of tools-services-01 and
tools-services-02, but the Puppet class toollabs::checker
inherits toollabs::submit which makes it run on
tools-checker-01 and tools-checker-02 as well.  I assume
Andrew's change 848c849a5a76c6dec318ddf3a9ce25e3d619365a was
accidental in that regard and I'll submit a patch to fix
that.

bigbrother/BigBrotherMonitor already write to a log file
aptly named bigbrother.log, so if you are not interested in
its mails, you can already discard them.

Tim