[hobbit] 4.2 - does logfile monitoring alert on empty file?

Asif Iqbal iqbala-hobbit at qwestip.net
Fri Apr 7 07:44:14 CEST 2006


On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 10:26:27PM, Henrik Storner wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 04:15:59PM -0400, John Glowacki wrote:
> > Does the new log file monitoring have the ability to alert on empty log 
> > files? I would like to be alerted if a log file is empty for longer than 
> > 16, 21 or 31 minutes. Most of our systems are set to 15 or 20 minute MARK's.
> 
> No, it doesn't. It would be pretty easy to implement, if there's enough
> people asking for it.

I would love to see this as well *sigh*. For most of our systems empty
means syslog is not working even though process seems to be running

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