[hobbit] files test fails to work

[David Gore]

Henrik Stoerner wrote:
> On Thu, May 18, 2006 at 01:47:29PM +0000, David Gore wrote:
>   
>> client-local.cfg:
>>
>>        file:/export/home/nmsbb/client/tmp/TEST
>>
>> hobbit-clients.cfg:
>>
>>        FILE %.*SNMP_COMMUNITY.public.nxg21:TEST.* yellow mtime>100
>>     
>
> I fail to see how these two can match. The regex pattern 
> ".*SNMP_COMMUNITY.public.nxg21:TEST.*" does not match the filename
> "/export/home/nmsbb/client/tmp/TEST" 
>
> Filenames are matched with the names you provide, not some (random)
> filename at the end of a symlink chain.
>
>   
Correct and I understand that.  I may be missing the obvious solution, 
but I was hoping someone would have made a suggestion after I sent a few 
emails.

Here is a file I want to get the 'mtime' for:

netx at ndcnxg21% ls -al 
/export/home/netx/Archive/nxg21/nxg21:SIG_SNMP/mci-nornxdb05.SNMP_COMMUNITY.public.nxg21:SIG_SNMP.2006May20
-rw-rw-rw-   1 netx     other    2189103 May 20 22:49 
/export/home/netx/Archive/nxg21/nxg21:SIG_SNMP/mci-nornxdb05.SNMP_COMMUNITY.public.nxg21:SIG_SNMP.2006May20

The first thing I noticed was the hobbitclient will display something like

file not found: export/home/netx/Archive/nxg21/nxg21:

It cuts the rest off regardless (at or the next character past the 
colon).  Doesn't really matter since I have to watch a dynamic filename 
with `date +%Y%b%d`.

So then I realize in client-local.cfg on the server you have to have a 
command or file entry that will resolve to one and only one full path 
filename?  You can, however, use a regular expression in 
hobbit-clients.cfg to create a line to match more than 1 file entry in 
client-local.cfg per host?

So how can I create something that will match this file name?  I also 
need to match other dynamic logs, that end in a Julian date.  Just 
remember the file name gets truncated at the colon and I was trying to 
work around that in combination with the dynamic filename.

Ideas?
>> client-local.cfg:
>>
>>        file:/home/nmsmgr/GNUstep/.GNUstepDefaults
>>
>> hobbit-clients.cfg:
>>
>>        FILE /home/nmsmgr/GNUstep/.GNUstepDefaults yellow size<1
>>
>> type:100000 (file)
>> mode:600 (-rw-------)
>> linkcount:1
>> owner:3200 (nmsmgr)
>> group:1026 (nmsadmin)
>> size:0
>> clock:1147958071 (2006/05/18-13:14:31)
>> atime:1147958065 (2006/05/18-13:14:25)
>> ctime:1147958065 (2006/05/18-13:14:25)
>> mtime:1146073519 (2006/04/26-17:45:19)
>>
>>
>> nmsbb at pdcalm105:/home/nmsbb> ls -al /home/nmsmgr/GNUstep/.GNUstepDefaults
>> -rw-------   1 nmsmgr   nmsadmin     125 Apr 26 17:45 
>> /home/nmsmgr/GNUstep/.GNUstepDefaults
>>
>> 'size' is not 0 as reported but 125 bytes, if it was 0 then it should 
>> fire an alarm, which it doesn't:
>>     
>
> Could you send me (directly) a copy of the relevant portion of your
> client's ~client/tmp/msg*.txt file, and your entire hobbit-clients.cfg 
> file?
>
>
> Regards,
> Henrik
>
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