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<P><FONT FACE="Arial"> We recently encountered a problem with directory permissions on one of our web servers and so decided to update our Xymon installation (v4.2.3) to monitor it. Unfortunately I think I've found a bug in the code that facilitates this. </FONT></P>
<P><FONT FACE="Arial">In the hobbit-client.cfg file we have a test like this:</FONT>
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<P> <FONT FACE="Arial">FILE /var/somefile mode=755 owner=root groupid=root yellow</FONT>
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<P><FONT FACE="Arial">The owner test works fine but the group test doesn't, instead it say that the file should be owned by group 'd=root'. Further investigation shows that the owner test also fails in the same way if we use the 'ownerid=root' variation of the owner test. It's almost as if the code is assuming that the first 6 characters of the token is the name and everything else is the value. This works fine with the 'owner=root' variation but fails dismally with the 'ownerid=root' and 'groupid=root' variations. It would be fine if we could use 'group=root' but as that's a reserved word it's not allowed.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT FACE="Arial"> Unfortunately my C coding is virtually non-existent, I can get by with reading it but not writing it! Has anyone encountered this before and written a patch for it? Or has it been fixed in the 4.3.0 beta?</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Thank you,</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Ian Marsh</FONT>
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<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">IT Service Operations - Network Services</FONT>
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