[hobbit] hobbit-*.cfg syntax check

[Jerry Yu]

why would it be annoying?  To custom a client, you either insert a section
to the hobbit-clients.cfg, or put such an insertion into a file named
clientName.cfg under such a directory dedicated for client conf. The latter
is less error-prone and less adverse impact when syntax error and
inadvertent deletion/editing happens.  I'd assume this is easier for the
server code to parse as well.

On 8/4/06, Gary B. <gmbfly98 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> That might get a little annoying if you have a large number of hosts
> to monitor, though.  However, perhaps adding the ability to breakup a
> config such as hobbit-clients into multiple files could help.
>
> > 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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