[Xymon] Monitoring Directory Permissions

[Tim McCloskey]

Thanks Bill!  I was curious about Vernon's original request and had poked at using FILE params for DIR.  Quickly discovered that wasn't going to work so just commented out DIR and gave FILE a go, by itself.  FILE worked and I didn't look back.  Deciphering which of the foo's flips to red should not be troublesome for most.  Thanks for the clarification.

Also, I test this on 4.3.17 - on the server, with the server as a client.  Aside from the usual /full/path/to/foo perms/ownership, if Vernon has a RedHat variant system selinux might need a tweak.  

Regards, 

Tim

________________________________________
From: Xymon [xymon-bounces at xymon.com] on behalf of Bill Arlofski [waa-hobbitml at revpol.com]
Sent: Tuesday, December 2, 2014 5:08 PM
To: xymon at xymon.com
Subject: Re: [Xymon] Monitoring Directory Permissions

On 12/02/2014 06:25 PM, Tim McCloskey wrote:
> I just tested this using file instead of dir.  It works for UNIX (everything is a file), can't speak for windows.  I'm not sure that it is designed or intended to work this way and I doubt you can mix DIR and FILE for the same O/S directory.
>
> analysis.cfg
> # DIR /foo SIZE<8192  SIZE>4096 COLOR=yellow
>  FILE /foo MODE=0644 COLOR=RED TRACK
>  FILE /foo OWNERID=johndoe COLOR=yellow
>

Hi Tim,

just thought I would respond to your doubts:

"I doubt you can mix DIR and FILE for the same O/S directory."

It turns out, that was actual the test I did.

I was already monitoring a dir for size on a host and just added:

file:/foo (client-local.cfg)

and

FILE /foo MODE=777 yellow (analysis.cfg)

and it worked fine.

Only thing is, on the "files" test page for that host, there are two lines for
/foo:

/foo
/foo
/other/file/name

With no indication as to which one is for which test... but when one goes
nongreen, the reason stated below it makes it clear.

Hope that helps!

Bill


--
Bill Arlofski
Reverse Polarity, LLC
http://www.revpol.com/
-- Not responsible for anything below this line --
_______________________________________________
Xymon mailing list
Xymon at xymon.com
http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon