[hobbit] hobbit-*.cfg syntax check

[Jerry Yu]

just a thought, what about using a dir named 'client_config' holding
individual config file for each client,  a default file, plus some wild-card
hosts as well. The benefit is obvious, the error in the syntax would not be
so devastating, since it affects on one client at a time unless it is
default file or wild-card config gets screwed.
Yesterday, I managed to delete 8 hosts entries on the top of the
hobbit-clients.cfg, and "HOST= of the 9th host entry. This caused checks for
the 9th host entry got applied to all thre remaining 24 hosts, as if they
are part of the default section (I have one at the bottom).

On 8/4/06, Henrik Stoerner <henrik at hswn.dk> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 10:40:12AM -0400, Gary B. wrote:
> >
> > Is there a syntax checker for the hobbit-*.cfg configuration files
> > (such as hobbit-clients.cfg)?  I'm having an issue where some of the
> > rules I set up are apparently being ignored, or otherwise not working
> > as expected.  I have a feeling it may be due to a syntax error, but
> > I'm not sure.
>
> The utilities that read the configuration file does complain if they
> find something they cannot understand. Look in the clientdata.log
> and page.log files (for hobbit-clients.cfg and hobbit-alerts.cfg,
> respectively).
>
> There are also "--dump-config" options for these two utilities, which
> will dump the configuration as they understand it. And complain
> about any errors.
>
> > I'm also curious, how does Hobbit deal with syntax errors in the
> > configuration files?  Does it just skip over bad syntax, or stop
> > completely when it encounters an error?
>
> It tries to cope, ignoring the error and continuing with whatever
> bits of the config file it understands.
>
>
> Regards,
> Henrik
>
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