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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>I found part of my problem of why the file
existence isn’t working. I wasn’t specifying the full path in
the hobbit-clients.cfg file. I also had to escape the forward slashes and
underscores with backslashes. Plus, the “red” parameter wasn’t
valid from what the log said.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>But still, I want to know if a file doesn’t
exist. The hobbitcleint.log file on the client just keeps saying<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'> “ls:
/usr/local/scripts/logs/dcsmnj8yecotnwbcevyym9t8c_4d7i*: No such file or
directory”. Therefore, it doesn’t report anything about
it. But I want to be alerted that it doesn’t exist.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Is anyone successfully monitoring file
existence?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>D. Stuffle<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2
face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'> Stuffle, David
(Corporate) [mailto:David.Stuffle@adesa.com] <br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Tuesday, November 27, 2007
5:15 PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> hobbit@hswn.dk<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> RE: [hobbit] File
existence monitoring</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Thanks Greg, <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>The filenames do change, they have the
date appended to them. I’m wanting to check that the files are
there and that they’re not 0 bytes. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>I know that when I was first setting it up
I messed up something and it said “File missing” when it
didn’t find the file. Now it doesn’t seem to care. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>D. Stuffle<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2
face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'> Hubbard, Greg L
[mailto:greg.hubbard@eds.com] <br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Tuesday, November 27, 2007
4:49 PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> <st1:PersonName w:st="on">hobbit@hswn.dk</st1:PersonName><br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> RE: [hobbit] File
existence monitoring</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=blue face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'>If the file names never change, then
specify the file name in the client-local.cfg instead of running the ls
command. If you delete the file, then the ls command will return
nothing. That is what I would try first, anyway.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=blue face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'>Or, it could be your check -- you are only
asking for an alarm if the file size is bigger than 1K. A missing file is
not bigger than 1K is it? And it seems like you need to do some other
things as well to get this correct. I am working from memory...</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=blue face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'>GLH</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font
size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'> Stuffle,
David (Corporate) [mailto:David.Stuffle@adesa.com] <br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Tuesday, November 27, 2007
2:59 PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> <st1:PersonName w:st="on">hobbit@hswn.dk</st1:PersonName><br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> [hobbit] File existence
monitoring</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Hi,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>I’m wanting to check the existence of specific files
in a directory and that they are at leat 1K in size. I have this in the
hobbit-clients.cfg file:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>HOST=hostname1<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'> PROC httpd<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'> FILE %^sdc_.* MTIME<3600
TIME=W:0730:2200 red<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'> FILE
%^dcs1xaz9saotnw713cmtaut8c_6w3j.* red size>1K TIME=*:0730:1800<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'> FILE
%^dcsaplg0kbotnwvrj16x28msg_1i2n.* red size>1K TIME=*:0730:1800<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'> FILE
%^dcsdq1p60cotnw32xcywlbisg_9i5q.* red size>1K TIME=*:0730:1800<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'> FILE
%^dcsmnj8yecotnwbcevyym9t8c_4d7i.* red size>1K TIME=*:0730:1800<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'> FILE
%^dcsp6ro5kbotnwvjh6yh0dmsg_3j1y.* red size>1K TIME=*:0730:1800<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'> FILE
%^dcsu5rokrbotnwb01tmd19mat_4w7s.* red size>1K TIME=*:0730:1800<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>And this in client-local.cfg:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>[hostname1]<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>file:`find /usr/local/webtrends/sdc/weblog -type f | xargs
ls -1tr | tail -1`<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>file:`ls -1
/usr/local/scripts/logs/dcs1xaz9saotnw713cmtaut8c_6w3j*`<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>file:`ls -1
/usr/local/scripts/logs/dcsaplg0kbotnwvrj16x28msg_1i2n*`<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>file:`ls -1 /usr/local/scripts/logs/dcsdq1p60cotnw32xcywlbisg_9i5q*`<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>file:`ls -1
/usr/local/scripts/logs/dcsmnj8yecotnwbcevyym9t8c_4d7i*`<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>file:`ls -1
/usr/local/scripts/logs/dcsp6ro5kbotnwvjh6yh0dmsg_3j1y*`<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>file:`ls -1
/usr/local/scripts/logs/dcsu5rokrbotnwb01tmd19mat_4w7s*`<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>They all show up under the files column. To test it, I
deleted the file specified in the last line from the directory, but all Hobbit
does is remove it from displaying. I want it to go red saying that the
file does not exist.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>The man pages says “</span></font>By default, a
warning is triggered for files that have a FILE entry, but which do not
exist.” But, I’m not seeing this occur.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Any ideas?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>D. Stuffle</span></font><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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