[hobbit] bb-hosts question
Henrik Stoerner
henrik at hswn.dk
Tue Feb 12 22:41:07 CET 2008
On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 11:25:59AM -0500, McGraw, Robert P wrote:
>
> I had a bb-host entry that looked like the following:
>
> 128.210.003.177 zorn.math.purdue.edu # \
> bbd ntp ssh smtp imaps pop3s \
> http://hobbit.math.purdue.edu/ \
> https://helpdesk.math.purdue.edu/ \
> TRENDS:vmstat:vmstat2|vmstat3|vmstat6|vmstat7|\
> vmstat8|vmstat9|vmstat0,\
> netstat:netstat0|netstat1|netstat2|netstat3
>
> In the above format I would not get vmstat[8,9,0] TRENDS but I would get the
> netstat TRENDS.
>
> When I changed the lines to look like the following it all worked.
>
> 128.210.003.177 zorn.math.purdue.edu # \
> bbd ntp ssh smtp imaps pop3s \
> http://hobbit.math.purdue.edu/ \
> https://helpdesk.math.purdue.edu/ \
> TRENDS:vmstat:vmstat2|vmstat3|vmstat6|vmstat7|vmstat8|vmstat9|vmstat0,\
> netstat:netstat0|netstat1|netstat2|netstat3
>
> Is there something in the TRENDS format that require things to be on the
> same line?
The code handling line continuation does have some subtleties, yes.
I would recommend not splitting a single setting over multiple lines.
Regards,
Henrik
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