[hobbit] File status information in client-data

[Kern, Thomas]

Now comes the twist in this. Rich and I are building a hobbit client for
a NON-Linux platform, so whatever code that reads hobbit-clients.cfg and
determines the rules, doesn't run on our platform. We have to figure out
how to completely mimic the data flow to the server. 

So if a linux server has a hobbit-client.cfg that has a file entry for
/var/log/special and we only care that the file exists, what does the
client-data stream need to contain in the [file:/var/log/special]
section that will signal a hobbit server to mark this as a Yellow
condition? The size and modification date might be other conditions that
people will want to check on our platform.

/Thomas Kern
/301-903-2211 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: henrik at hswn.dk [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk] 
> Sent: Monday, November 13, 2006 5:29 PM
> To: hobbit at hswn.dk
> Subject: Re: [hobbit] File status information in client-data
> 
> On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 03:44:49PM -0600, Rich Smrcina wrote:
> > Henrik,
> > 
> > Just to clarify, is this still true for a locally 
> administered client 
> > (even Linux)?
> 
> On a locally admin'ed client, you have the "hobbit-clients.cfg" file
> locally. You still need to put a FILE entry into hobbit-clients.cfg to
> tell Hobbit what rules should be applied to the file you're checking.
> (Should it exist? Or not? Have a certain size? Be owned by "root"?)