[Xymon] clientlaunch.cfg: CRONDATE problem / error?

[cleaver at terabithia.org]

This is fixed in trunk and the 4.3.7 branch, but isn't in the tarball.

http://xymon.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/xymon?view=revision&revision=6906
http://xymon.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/xymon?view=revision&revision=6899


This specific patch should fix it:
http://xymon.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/xymon/trunk/common/xymonlaunch.c?r1=6906&r2=6905&view=patch&sortby=rev&sortdir=down&pathrev=6906

-jc


> Hello out there,
>
> we are using Xymon 4.3.7 as xymon server. There is a particular client
> running Ubuntu 9.04 as operating system and Xymon 4.3.7 as client,
> reporting successfully to the Xymon server.
> I have been in the need to write a script that is running on a fixed time
> of a day. Therefore I configured the script in the clientlaunch.cfg on the
> client as follows:
>
> [xymoncheckscript-custom]
>            ENVFILE $XYMONCLIENTHOME/etc/xymonclient.cfg
>            CMD $XYMONCLIENTHOME/ext/xymoncheckscript-custom.sh
>            LOGFILE $XYMONCLIENTHOME/logs/ xymoncheckscript-custom.log
>            CRONDATE 0 11 * * *
>
> When restarting the xymon services on the client I get the following entry
> in clientlaunch.log:
>
> 2012-06-13 10:58:53 Can't parse cron date: xymoncheckscript-custom->0 11 *
> * *
>
> The man page of tasks.cfg has the section:
> ===============================================================
>
>  [monthlyreport]
>
>           ENVFILE /usr/local/xymon/server/etc/xymonserver.cfg
>
>           CMD /usr/local/xymon/server/ext/monthlyreport.sh
>
>           CRONDATE 30 4 1 * *
> :
> :
>
> The CRONDATE keyword is used for tasks that must run at regular intervals
> or at a specific time. The time specification is identical to the one used
> by cron in
> crontab<http://xymon.mrv.de/xymon/help/manpages/man5/crontab.5.html>(5)
> entries, i.e. a sequence of numbers for minute, hour, day-of-month, month
> and day-of-week. Three-letter abbreviations in english can be used for the
> month and day-of-week fields. An asterisk is a wildcard. So in the example
> above, this job would run once a month, at 4:30 AM on the 1st day of the
> month.
> ===============================================================
>
> For my understanding everything I've set up should work, but it doesn't.
>
> Where's my fault? I would really like to fire this check-script from
> clientlaunch.cfg instead of an crontab entry.
>
> Regards
> Christian
>
>
> CHRISTIAN BECKER
> System Engineer
> CSC
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