[hobbit] Monitoring file sizes

[Rich Smrcina]

Paul Ward wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I a bit of a newbie to hobbit / xymon so please forgive me.
> 
> I have been trying to get my hobbit server to monitor a file called
> /home/xymon/test.txt, so I can log the growth on it, should I append
> TRACK to it?
> 
> I have modified client-local.cfg and added
> [linux]
> log:/var/log/messages:10240
> file:/home/xymon/test.txt
> 
> I have no data in hobbit to show for this what am I doing wrong?
> 
> Thanks

In hobbit-clients.cfg on the server you need to add a FILE entry.  See the commentary at 
the beginning of the file for details.

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