<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:8pt"><div><span><br>ultimately, yes, I do want it for all hosts.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 10.67px; font-family: "Arial"; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 10.67px; font-family: "Arial"; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>and the client xymon user can indeed read the /var/logs/messages file.<br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 10.67px; font-family: "Arial"; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 10.67px; font-family: "Arial"; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>so the permissions are correct, its in the
corrects ection (in effect), and both the client and server fiels are correctly configured.<br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 10.67px; font-family: "Arial"; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 10.67px; font-family: "Arial"; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>I am at a loss then as to why msgs remains white.<br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 10.67px; font-family: "Arial"; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 10.67px; font-family: "Arial"; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>:-(</span><span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 10.67px; font-family: "Arial"; background-color: transparent; font-style:
normal;"><span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 10.67px; font-family: "Arial"; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 10.67px; font-family: "Arial"; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>didds<br></span></div><div><br></div> <div style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: "HelveticaNeue", "Helvetica Neue", "Helvetica", "Arial", "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, Sans-Serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <hr size="1"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Galen Johnson <Galen.Johnson@sas.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> "Root, Paul T" <Paul.Root@CenturyLink.com>; 'Ian Diddams'
<didds3@yahoo.co.uk>; "'xymon@xymon.com'" <xymon@xymon.com> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Friday, 30 May 2014, 19:31<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> RE: [Xymon] monitoring msgs<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container"><br><div id="yiv8481023072"><style type="text/css">#yiv8481023072 P {margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;}</style><style>
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Also, are your permissions allowing the xymon user to access the log file you are monitoring? I've seen on some systems that /var/log/messages permissions disallow world read...
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<div>Also, I think if you set it in the DEFAULT area, it will enable it for all hosts...you may want that. Fairly certain it doesn't have to be associated with a specific host to work.<br clear="none">
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<div dir="ltr" id="yiv8481023072divRplyFwdMsg"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" color="#000000" style="font-size:11pt;"><b>From:</b> Xymon <xymon-bounces@xymon.com> on behalf of Root, Paul T <Paul.Root@CenturyLink.com><br clear="none">
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, May 30, 2014 12:24 PM<br clear="none">
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<div class="yiv8481023072MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;">First, the LOG line needs to come before the DEFAULTS section.</span></div>
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<b>On Behalf Of </b>Ian Diddams<br clear="none">
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, May 30, 2014 11:01 AM<br clear="none">
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and for clarification, msgs report still returns a white button and the follwoing in the megs page itself</span></div>
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<b>To:</b> "<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:xymon@xymon.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:xymon@xymon.com">xymon@xymon.com</a>" <<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:xymon@xymon.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:xymon@xymon.com">xymon@xymon.com</a>>
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<b>Sent:</b> Friday, 30 May 2014, 16:28<br clear="none">
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