[xymon] hobbitd_alert bug with REPEAT

[Henrik Størner]

In <AANLkTikVuJ-DxVQgRBhVR34fPV6Qi7_yCgeOwYZt9hT1 at mail.gmail.com> Asif Iqbal <vadud3 at gmail.com> writes:

>$ hobbitd_alert --dump-config shows

>HOST=%(.*) SERVICE=apt COLOR=red
>        MAIL user at example.net FORMAT=TEXT REPEAT=1440

>But I am receiving the same alert every 30 mins (default) with same alert code.

>The info column says Repeat is 1d for service apt.


Could you check the notifications.log file for some of the
extra alerts you receive ? It looks like this:
Thu Jul  1 07:07:00 2010 osiris.hswn.dk.cpu (0.0.0.0) henrik at hswn.dk[121] 1277960820 200
Thu Jul  1 07:46:05 2010 dali.hswn.dk.cpu (172.16.10.4) henrik at hswn.dk[121] 1277963165 200

The number in the square brackets is the line in your hobbit-alerts.cfg 
that generates the alert.


>A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
>Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?

:-))


Regards,
Henrik