[hobbit] FILE, file, hobbit-clients.cfg, client-local.cfg?

David Gore David.Gore at verizonbusiness.com
Sat May 13 17:29:27 CEST 2006


David Gore wrote:
> Henrik,
>
> I think this is what you told me to try to get what I want, basically 
> tell the client what command to run to return one or more file names?  
> My 'ls' should return exactly one filename.  Is there a way to debug 
> this to see where it is breaking?
>
> Server config:
>
> hobbit-clients.cfg:        FILE 
> "%mci-.*SNMP_COMMUNITY.VOIP_DEVICES.nxg17:VOIP_SNMP.*" yellow mtime>300
> client-local.cfg:            file:`ls -rt 
> /export/home/netx/Archive/nxg17/nxg17:VOIP_SNMP|tail -1`
>
> Perhaps I cannot use pipes in my command and need something simpler?
>
The client is truncating my command, from hobbitclient.log on the client:

/export/home/netx/Archive/nxg17/nxg17: No such file or directory

I suppose the client does not like colons.  I tried a backslash for the 
':', no luck. 




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