Removing a host from BB (Big Brother)

I’ve run into this a couple times now. An old server is decommissioned, BB starts sending mad pages. So I’ll remove the host’s entry from BBHOME/etc/bb-hosts

But it’s still paging me non-stop with purple alerts! What the heck?

This software is ancient but luckily some folks out there still have good answers to this question! Turns out there are 3 other folders with files that need to be removed since they pertain to the host.

<I’ve removed a host in etc/bb-hosts and the screen is purple>

After you remove a host(s) in etc/bb-hosts, you must remove the
corresponding files in $BBLOGS, www/html and $BBHIST. BBLOGS and
BBHIST are defined in etc/bbinc.sh

cd www
rm html/thedeletedhost*
cd ../../bbvar
rm logs/thedeletedhost*
rm hist/thedeletedhost*