[hobbit] File monitoring.

[Jerry Yu]

For wildcard, you want '.*' to represent any character instead of '*'
alone.  I have a handful of this kind of FILE checks.

On 1/11/07, Thomas <tlp-hobbit at holme-pedersen.dk> wrote:
>
> hi all,
>
> Trying to get file monitoring to work. Works find with fixed filenames
> but I need to match a pattern in a directory and find the oldest file.
> If more than say 7200 sec old in mtime then generate an alert.
>
> in client-local.cfg I have
>
> file:`ls -t /ftp/input/* | tail -1`
>
> which produces the oldest file name on the web page.
>
> I have the following in hobbit-clients.cfg
>
>    FILE %/ftp/input/*.gz RED mtime<7200
>
> but I get no alarms.
>
> Any ideas ?
>
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