howto run msgs check ?

Nicolas nico at crysto.org
Tue Jul 25 12:05:06 CEST 2006


Hi,

Os: FreeBSD 5.1
Server Hobbit: 4.2-RC-20060712
Client Hobbit: 4.2-RC-20060712

I m trying to configure trigger on msgs check but don't manage :(

here the configuration on server side, maybe there is a mistake :

Goal: report yellow/red alerts on some keyword in /var/log/messages

1. hobbit-clients.cfg on server side

HOST=baldo.tou.nu
       [...]
       LOG %/var/log/messages kernel COLOR=yellow
       LOG %/var/log/messages %(I/O|read).error COLOR=red
       LOG %/var/log/messages diff-bkp-mx-dom COLOR=red

2. client-local.cfg on server side

[freebsd]
log:/var/log/maillog:10240
file:/usr/local/bin/bash:md5
log:/var/log/messages:10240

[baldo.tou.nu]
file:/usr/local/bin/bash:md5
log:/var/log/messages:10240
trigger diff-bkp-mx-dom
trigger kernel
log:/var/log/maillog:10240
ignore spamd
trigger deferred


3. The [green]  msgs column of the host reports this:

No entries in /var/log/messages

No entries in /var/log/maillog

Full log /var/log/messages
Jul 25 11:19:36 baldo sudo:   hobbit : TTY=unknown ;
PWD=/usr/home/hobbit/client ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/usr/bin/netstat -i -b
-n
Jul 25 11:19:36 baldo sudo:   hobbit : TTY=unknown ;
PWD=/usr/home/hobbit/client ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/usr/bin/netstat -s
Jul 25 11:19:36 baldo sudo:   hobbit : TTY=unknown ;
PWD=/usr/home/hobbit/client ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/usr/bin/netstat -na -f
inet
[...]
Jul 25 11:49:43 baldo sudo:   hobbit : TTY=unknown ;
PWD=/usr/home/hobbit/client ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/bin/ps -ax -ww -o
pid,ppid,user,start,state,pri,pcpu,cputime,pmem,rss,vsz,args
Jul 25 11:49:43 baldo sudo:   hobbit : TTY=unknown ;
PWD=/usr/home/hobbit/client ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/usr/bin/top -n 20

Full log /var/log/maillog
Cannot open logfile /var/log/maillog : Permission denied


I know there is a permission problem for maillog but i don 't care at this
time, i d like to monitore /var/log/messages at first ;-)

Thanks in advance.

Regards,
Nicolas





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