[hobbit] custom event log

[Kolbjørn Barmen]

On Wed, 26 Jul 2006, Henrik Stoerner wrote:

> > Secondly, is there a way to generate a similar log with a summary of the
> > event attached at the end?
> 
> Try running (as the hobbit user):
>    bbcmd hobbitd_channel --channel=stachg cat
> What you'll get is a message whenever there is a test changes status.
> The message begins with a line like
> 
> @@stachg#67898|1153893946.152988|10.29.75.39||myhost|disk|1153895746|red|yellow|1153892146|0||0|0
> 
[snip]
> 
> After this line comes the full text of the status message, and the
> message ends with a line containing only "@@"

Brilliant - thanks!

> Gobbling up these messages is fairly simple - there's a hobbitd_sample
> utility included with Hobbit that does it in C, but I'm sure anyone with
> a bit of experience could implement it in Perl.

Or python.. In time I think I'll probably try to implement a "hobbit"
plugin for Supybot, one that can do more than just tailing a log :)

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