[hobbit] File monitoring.

[Thomas]

I left it with the .*.gz to look acuratly for the files I want to 
monitor - and ys you are right I need to switch the contition for mtime 
round.

The tip og using the full file path made it work.

Jerry Yu wrote:
> to my surprise, * actually works on my Hobbit-4.2rc1-20060712 server.
>
> what's your test condition?  You want it to alert when your oldest 
> file is less than 2-hour old ?   More commonly, people want to test if 
> their oldest file is older than 2-hour old (mtime >7200 instead of 
> mtime < 7200).
>
> To further troubleshoot: on your client, check the 
> logfetch.ClientNameHere.cfg under ~hobbit/client/tmp/. Also check 
> msg.ClientNameHere.txt therein to see whether it has a 
> [file:/ftp/input/oldestFileName.gz] section.
>
>
> On 1/11/07, *Jerry Yu* <jjj863 at gmail.com <mailto:jjj863 at gmail.com>> 
> wrote:
>
>     both are ok,since .* is not greedy as in PERL's. The former is
>     preferred since it provides more exact match.
>
>
>     On 1/11/07, * Thomas* < tlp-hobbit at holme-pedersen.dk
>     <mailto:tlp-hobbit at holme-pedersen.dk>> wrote:
>
>         Do you mean like this ?
>
>         FILE %/ftp/input/.*.gz RED mtime<7200 or
>
>         FILE %/ftp/input/.* RED mtime<7200
>
>         Jerry Yu wrote:
>         > 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
>         <mailto:tlp-hobbit at holme-pedersen.dk>
>         > <mailto: tlp-hobbit at holme-pedersen.dk
>         <mailto: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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