[hobbit] Question on Alert Notifications

Takeshi Nishioka nishioka at rightnow.mitsui.co.jp
Wed Nov 30 05:54:17 CET 2005


Would you please let us know how to edit Sender entry. 
It's "Hobbit <hobbit at name.domain.com>" in my environment.



On Wed, 23 Nov 2005 13:24:06 +0100
henrik at hswn.dk (Henrik Stoerner) wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 07:13:00AM -0500, Bill Perez wrote:
> > Thanks Thomas.
> > I am trying to find out how to take the word 'Hobbit' out of the alert
> > subject and didn't find any info on that in the Configuring Alerts page.
> 
> That's because it isn't configurable. You'll have to edit the 
> hobbit-4.1.2p1/hobbitd/do_alert.c file - look for the "message_subject"
> routine. In there you'll find some code that goes like this:
> 
>         switch (alert->state) {
> 	  case A_PAGING:
> 	  case A_ACKED:
> 		subjfmt = (include_configid ? "Hobbit [%d] %s:%s %s [cfid:%d]" :  "Hobbit [%d] %s:%s %s");
> 
> The "%s" and "%d" are placeholders for the hostname, testname etc. But 
> if you just want to delete the word "Hobbit", you can just delete it.
> Run "make", stop Hobbit, run "make install" and start Hobbit after the
> change.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Henrik
> 
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