[hobbit] Newbie questions

[Charles Jones]

Henrik Stoerner wrote:

>On Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 01:59:05PM -0700, Charles Jones wrote:
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>>Henrik Stoerner wrote:
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>>>The current release- and beta-versions will not let you do that, but
>>>I've just committed a change so you can remove any of the columns from
>>>the client-side tests through a new tag in the bb-hosts entry. E.g. if
>>>you want to avoid having a "msgs" status for the host foo.bar.com, then
>>>the entry in bb-hosts would be
>>>
>>> 10.0.0.1 foo.bar.com  # NOCOLUMNS:msgs
>>>
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>Henrik: will this allow removal of any column? Specifically "files" and 
>>"ports"?  Also, if you remove all references to a column for all hosts, 
>>will this also remove the column header, or will you just be left with 
>>an empty column with no dots?
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>Not "any" column - just those that are generated form the client-side
>tests. I.e. cpu, disk, memory, msgs, procs, files, ports.
>
>It simply keeps those status-messages from being generated, so if you
>remove e.g. the "files" column for all hosts, then there will not be a
>"files" column on the display at all.
>
>(I do plan to extend this so you can remove any column, and not just
>those that stem from the client-side tests. But it required more changes
>to the core utilities than I'm willing to do right now).
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I see. I also just found the "--no-clear-files" option, which should 
effectively remove my files column :)

-Charles

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