[hobbit] New to Hobbit --- file monitoring

[Scott Mohnkern]

I used the Ubuntu apt-get to install it.  There's a hobbit log in
/var/log/hobbit that seems to be getting updated:

I noted the following in clientlaunch.log.1:

 Cannot open configuration file /usr/lib/hobbit/client/etc/clientlaunch.cfg:
No such file or directory

It looks like it may be using hobbitlaunch.cfg for the client.

Scott



On 11/1/07, Hubbard, Greg L <greg.hubbard at eds.com> wrote:
>
>  Did you install this from scratch, or use someone's package to install?
> It is surprising that you have both directories (unless one is a symlink for
> the other).
>
> I use Solaris for the most part, so I had to build my own configuration.
> I don't like to scatter things throughout the file system, so everything
> "server" is under hobbit/server and everything "client" is under
> hobbit/client.
>
> I think there is a log file you can check, but I don't where it might be
> on your system.  You might want to glance through the man pages for the
> various daemons and see where they write their logs.
>
> GLH
>
>  ------------------------------
> *From:* Scott Mohnkern [mailto:mohnkern at gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Thursday, November 01, 2007 2:02 PM
> *To:* hobbit at hswn.dk
> *Subject:* Re: [hobbit] New to Hobbit --- file monitoring
>
> Okay, did a file search for hobbit-clients.cfg and found:
>
> /etc/hobbit/hobbit-clients.cfg
>
> Then looked in that file and found:
>
> mohnkern at Casa-Scott:/etc/hobbit$ grep FILE hobbit-clients.cfg
> #    FILE   : Changes the "files" status according to meta-data for files.
>
> #    FILE filename [color] [things to check] [TRACK]
> FILE "/etc/passwd" GREEN NOEXIST TRACK
>
>
> There's also a hobbit-clients.cfg in /usr/lib/hobbit/server/etc     The
> entry is there as well.
>
> However, at the hobbit screen, the file entry is still coming up grey, and
> "no files being checked"
>
> Scott
>
>
>
> On 11/1/07, Stef Coene <stef.coene at docum.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Wednesday 31 October 2007, Scott Mohnkern wrote:
> > > Thanks, this was the critical piece of information I was
> > missing.  There
> > > are client configuration files in /etc/hobbit that I was editing, and
> > > clearly they aren't the correct ones.  I need to edit the ones in
> > > /usr/lib/hobbit/client.
> > >
> > > Back to editing what I hope is the correct config file.  I should be
> > able
> > > to put
> > >
> > > FILE "/etc/passwd" GREEN NOEXIST TRACK
> > >  in ~/usr/lib/hobbit/client/etc/hobbit- clients.cfg
> > >
> > > and then start the hobbit client with /usr/lib/hobbit/runclient.sh
> > start
> > >
> > >  and get reporting, yes?
> > No,  this has to go in the hobbit-clients.cfg file on the _server_.  The
> > server receives the data from the client (including the log file
> > information)
> > and needs to know what to do with it.
> > Before the client sends file information to the server, you need to
> > configure
> > client-local.cfg on the _server_.
> > So all configuration is done on the server.
> >
> > If the client and the server is the same machine, it can be tricky to
> > find the
> > right config file.  If you install the hobbit server from source, all
> > files
> > are placed in the same sub directory so it is clear to know what's the
> > server
> > and what's the client.
> >
> >
> > Stef
> >
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> >
> >
> >
>
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