[Systems] mirmon warnings

Peter Pöml peter at poeml.de
Sat Oct 16 08:02:05 EDT 2010


Hi,

Am 15.10.2010 um 23:32 schrieb Bernie Innocenti:

> On Wed, 2010-10-13 at 04:29 +0200, Peter Pöml wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> Am 12.10.2010 um 20:30 schrieb Bernie Innocenti:
>>> For some time, we've been getting these warnings from the mirmon hourly
>>> job:
>>> 
>>> sunjammer:~# /usr/bin/mirmon -q -get update
>>> mirmon: wrote empty state file; keeping previous version
>>> Use of uninitialized value $refs in printf at /usr/bin/mirmon line 909.
>>> 
>>> We use mirmon-1.38-11. The contents of mirrorlist-export is:
>> 
>> Do you have a list_style setting in your mirmon configuration?
> 
> We have "list_style apache"
> 
> 
>> There is mirmon 2.3 meanwhile, and a default changed maybe.
> 
> I can't find a suitable package for Ubuntu.
> 
> 
>> The setting can be "apache" or "plain". I can't remember
>> offhand which looks how, but MirrorBrain supports both
>> flavors - use either mb export --format=mirmon-apache or --format=mirmon.
> 
> Ok, found the issue. The mb export invocation in /etc/cron.d/mirrorbrain
> had --format=mirmon, which did not match what mirmon expected.
> 
> Thank you for guiding me to the solution, as usual.

Okay, thanks for the explication and good to know that it works now!
Peter


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