[hobbit] directory test

[Galen Johnson]

If you want to check that a directory doesn't exist, why not use Xymon's builtin functionality?

-----Original Message-----
From: Kip, D. - GDI/SNB [mailto:d.kip at gdi.minjus.nl] 
Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2009 11:29 AM
To: hobbit at hswn.dk
Subject: RE: [hobbit] directory test

Your find is looking for the existence of the directory, not the non-existence.
So the green status is correct.

Change it to an 'if' statement like 

if [ $(find /tata -d -name toto_*) ]; then echo &red ; else echo &green ; fi

Or something similar

Alternatively, you can look into the correct useage of the '!'-operator (boolean NOT) in your 'find' expression.
I could not find the correct way to use it quick enough, sorry.


-----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
Van: dOCtoR MADneSs [mailto:doctor at makelofine.org] 
Verzonden: donderdag 26 februari 2009 14:18
Aan: hobbit at hswn.dk
Onderwerp: Re: [hobbit] directory test

Henrik Størner a écrit :
> On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 02:29:28PM +0100, dOCtoR MADneSs wrote:
>> I'm using actually xymon 4.2.3. I check for presence of some files 
>> (red if present, else green ), and it's working very well.
>> I'd like to do almost same test with directory. Final objective is :
>> if there is any directory called toto_ANYTHING in /tata (to any level 
>> in the directory hierarchy of /tata, I'd like yellow result, else 
>> green result).
> 
> Not sure if it will work, but I'd start with something like
>   [host]
>   file:`find /tata -name toto_*`
> That gives you a list of the files you're looking for. And then in 
> hobbit-clients.cfg you would have
> 
>   HOST=host
>       FILE %^/tata/toto_ yellow noexist
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Henrik
> 
> 
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> 
Thanks for your answer, unfortunately this didn't work.
If I replace
file:`find /tata -name toto_*` with
with
file:$(find /tata -name toto_*) I can get :

green $(find /tata -type d -name toto_*) But it's wrong, I have a toto_test directory in /tata

So, I don't think it's the appropriate solution


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