[xymon] ignore certain things in a log file

[Steve Holmes]

On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 10:44 AM, Kevin Kelly <kkelly at lifetouch.com> wrote:

>  Could somebody tell me why this won’t work?
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> HOST=testserver
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>         LOG     %/var/adm/messages kern "IGNORE=%(corrupt label|wrong magic
> number)"
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> Trying to ignore all lines in the messages file that contain those key
> words.
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> Thanks
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> Kevin
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I'm not sure why you have the parens in the pattern, but you might try
taking them out. Also, if that doesn't work, try dropping the quotes and
replacing each space with \s.
Steve
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