[hobbit] Re: New to Hobbit --- file monitoring

[Hubbard, Greg L]

Try this
 
FILE /etc/passwd noexist COLOR=green TRACK


________________________________

	From: Scott Mohnkern [mailto:mohnkern at gmail.com] 
	Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2007 3:39 PM
	To: hobbit at hswn.dk
	Subject: Re: [hobbit] Re: New to Hobbit --- file monitoring
	
	
	Well, at least its replicatable.
	
	
	Scott
	
	
	
	On 11/1/07, Scott Mohnkern < mohnkern at gmail.com
<mailto:mohnkern at gmail.com> > wrote: 

		Thanks for the help.  I edited
/etc/hobbit/hobbit-clients.cfg so the line reads:
		
		FILE /etc/passwd GREEN noexist
		
		still no joy.  
		
		Is there anyone on the list that has an example of a
FILE line in their hobbit-clients.cfg file?
		
		
		On 11/1/07, Hubbard, Greg L < greg.hubbard at eds.com
<mailto:greg.hubbard at eds.com> > wrote: 
		

			Try removing the TRACK keyword, and then change
NOEXIST to lower case.  I think Henrik has reported that there are a few
bugs in this code, 
			and it is not always clear when case matters and
when it doesn't, or when the order of the arguments matters.
			 
			 
________________________________

			From: Scott Mohnkern [mailto:mohnkern at gmail.com]

			Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2007 3:10 PM
			To: hobbit at hswn.dk
			Subject: [hobbit] Re: New to Hobbit --- file
monitoring
			
			
			

				When all else fails, nuke it and start
over.  I did an apt-get remove hobbit, and then a dpkg -- purge.  Then I
removed any files I could find.  Then I downloaded the Ubuntu deb file
and installed it.  It put the configuration files in /etc/hobbit and it
started fine 
				
				I edited /etc/hobbit/hobbit-clients.cfg
and added the following line:
				
				PROC ntpd 1 99 green "TEXT=NTPD is up"
				
				
				Restarted hobbit, and in a few minutes,
it started reporting as expected.
				
				Then I added:
				
				PORT "LOCAL=%(:8888)" TEXT="Gnump is up"
				
				To the same file,
(/etc/hobbit/hobbit-clients.cfg) and restared hobbit.
				
				A few minutes later, the ports section
started reporting, as expected. 
				
				(Though I realize that its a bit off,
which I need to fix)
				
				
				Then I added:
				
				FILE /etc/passwd GREEN NOEXIST track
				
				Reading the documentation inside
hobbit-clients.cfg I edited /etc/hobbit/client- local.cfg and added the
following line:
				file:/etc/passwd
				
				restarted hobbit, waited 5 minutes.  No
luck.
				
				
				I'm pretty convinced that either:
				
				1. the format of the line  in
/etc/hobbit/client-local.cfg or /etc/hobbit/hobbit-clients.cfg is
incorrect, or
				2. There's something else I need to
edit.
				
				



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