[hobbit] Problems with MSG filter

[Buchan Milne]

On Thursday, 7 January 2010 08:23:03 thorsten.erdmann at daimler.com wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I have some problems filtering entries from the msg test. I have several
> hosts, running SuSE which often produce the following messages in
> /var/log/messages:
> 
> Jan  7 08:09:22 s068c320 ntpd[4944]: kernel time sync error 0001
> 
> The hosts are named s068c320, s068c321, s068c322, ...
> 
> So I made the following entries in the hobbit-clients.cfg on the
> Hobbitserver, to filter out these messages:
> 
> HOST=%s068c32*
>         LOG     %.* %(fatal|error)   COLOR=red   IGNORE=ntpd

Shouldn't this be:

HOST=%s068c32.*
        LOG     %.* %(fatal|error)   COLOR=red   IGNORE=ntpd

(Note the ., this is a regex, not a glob)

Regards,
Buchan