[hobbit] Need help in getting message alerts

Galen Johnson gjohnson at trantor.org
Sat Jan 12 17:20:15 CET 2008


Edward Croft wrote:
> I have it set up on different machines, in different configurations 
> trying to find the one that works.The only one that works is the one 
> that is using the bb client. We are trying to move away from Big 
> Brother. When it is client-side, I configure it on the client, on the 
> server side I configure all of them whether they are client-side or 
> not. Question, I note that the bb-hosts file isn't installed 
> client-side, I did copy it over to /usr/local/hobbit/client/etc 
> directory just in case, but still no go.
> The important thing is for it to alert if there is the word NOTICE in 
> the line for messages, and BREAKIN for secure.
> Thanks Henrik. Other than that, it all looks great. I really like it, 
> but I have to get this working or it is a no go and I will have to 
> look elsewhere.
>
>
> On Jan 12, 2008 9:15 AM, Henrik Stoerner <henrik at hswn.dk 
> <mailto:henrik at hswn.dk>> wrote:
>
>     Have you configured your client(s) for server-side or client-side
>     configuration ? It's the first question asked when you configure
>     the client:
>      Server side client configuration, or client side [server] ?
>
>     And what host are you editing the client-local.cfg and
>     hobbit-clients.cfg files on ? On the client or on the server?
>
>
>     Henrik
>
>
>     On Thu, Jan 10, 2008 at 02:15:24PM -0500, Edward Croft wrote:
>     > On the message page I am getting the following results.
>     > In the client-local.cfg file it says:
>     > log:/var/log/messages:10240
>     > trigger NOTICE
>     > trigger WARNING
>     >
>     > log:/var/log/secure:10240
>     > ignore "Connection closed by"
>     > trigger BREAKIN
>     >
>     > In hobbit-clients.cfg it says:
>     >         LOG /var/log/messages WARNING COLOR=yellow
>     >         LOG /var/log/messages NOTICE COLOR=red
>     >         LOG /var/log/secure BREAKIN
>     >
>     > Yet, nothing appears in the top half and it never changes from
>     green.
>     >
>     >
>     > No entries in /var/log/messages
>     > <
>     http://phanes/hobbit-cgi/bb-hostsvc.sh?CLIENT=sirona.hq.openratings.com&SECTION=msgs:/var/log/messages
>     <http://phanes/hobbit-cgi/bb-hostsvc.sh?CLIENT=sirona.hq.openratings.com&SECTION=msgs:/var/log/messages>>
>     >
>     > No entries in /var/log/secure
>     > <
>     http://phanes/hobbit-cgi/bb-hostsvc.sh?CLIENT=sirona.hq.openratings.com&SECTION=msgs:/var/log/secure
>     <http://phanes/hobbit-cgi/bb-hostsvc.sh?CLIENT=sirona.hq.openratings.com&SECTION=msgs:/var/log/secure>>
>     >
>     >
>     > Full log /var/log/messages
>     > <
>     http://phanes/hobbit-cgi/bb-hostsvc.sh?CLIENT=sirona.hq.openratings.com&SECTION=msgs:/var/log/messages
>     <http://phanes/hobbit-cgi/bb-hostsvc.sh?CLIENT=sirona.hq.openratings.com&SECTION=msgs:/var/log/messages>>
>     > Jan 10 13:31:40 sirona ecroft: NOTICE
>     >
>     > Full log /var/log/secure
>     >
>     <http://phanes/hobbit-cgi/bb-hostsvc.sh?CLIENT=sirona.hq.openratings.com&SECTION=msgs:/var/log/secure
>     <http://phanes/hobbit-cgi/bb-hostsvc.sh?CLIENT=sirona.hq.openratings.com&SECTION=msgs:/var/log/secure>>
>     > Jan 10 13:22:50 sirona sshd[5087]: Connection closed by
>     10.0.14.249 <http://10.0.14.249>
>     > Jan 10 13:27:51 sirona sshd[5133]: Connection closed by
>     10.0.14.249 <http://10.0.14.249>
>     > Jan 10 13:31:38 sirona ecroft: BREAKIN
>     > Jan 10 13:32:52 sirona sshd[5181]: Connection closed by
>     10.0.14.249 <http://10.0.14.249>
>     > Jan 10 13:37:53 sirona sshd[5227]: Connection closed by
>     10.0.14.249 <http://10.0.14.249>
>     > Jan 10 13:42:54 sirona sshd[5273]: Connection closed by
>     10.0.14.249 <http://10.0.14.249>
>     > Jan 10 13:47:55 sirona sshd[5319]: Connection closed by
>     10.0.14.249 <http://10.0.14.249>
>     > Jan 10 13:52:56 sirona sshd[5365]: Connection closed by
>     10.0.14.249 <http://10.0.14.249>
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     > --
>     > If the sane say the insane are insane,
>     > What if the sane are insane?
>     > Would that make the insane sane?
>     > Explains a lot in Washington!
>     >  --E. Croft
>
>     --
>     Henrik Storner
>
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>
>
>
> -- 
> If the sane say the insane are insane,
> What if the sane are insane?
> Would that make the insane sane?
> Explains a lot in Washington!
>  --E. Croft 
Unless you have a reason not to (like a firewall you have no control 
over), install it with serverside configuration.  While hobbit may look 
and feel like BB (and use most of the bbc clients with little or no 
modification), it works differently.  With hobbit, set up with 
serverside config, you only have to maintain bbhosts on the server. 
Check out the man pages that you can link via the web page.

=G=




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