[Xymon] Dir size check "Could not determine size of directory"

[Betsy Schwartz]

That was it, thank you! A space at the end of the file name.


On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 12:55 AM, Henrik Størner <henrik at hswn.dk> wrote:

> On 12-02-2014 03:37, Betsy Schwartz wrote:
>
>> ! /mm/foo/request/chkpt
>> Could not determine size of directory /mm/foo/request/chkpt
>>
>> client-local config:
>> [foo.example.com]
>> dir:/mm/foo/request/chkpt
>>
>> analysis.cfg:
>> HOST=foo.example.com <http://foo.example.com>
>>
>>          DIR /mm/foo/request/chkpt yellow size<25622560
>>
>> Looking at client data I see:
>>
>> [dir:/mm/foo/request/chkpt ]
>> 2627096 /mm/foo/request/chkpt
>>
>> Any thoughts?
>>
>
>
> The only thing that sticks out to my eye is that there seems to be some
> whitespace after the directory name in the client data:
>
> > [dir:/mm/foo/request/chkpt ]
>
> I think this might be the cause - when the client runs the 'du' command,
> it is passed to a shell which will ignore the trailing whitespace; but the
> analysis module back on the Xymon server treats it as a valid part of the
> directory name and so it cannot match the name from the client data with
> the name from the analysis.cfg file.
>
> Could you check the client-local.cfg file and see if there is a trailing
> space in the "dir:/mm/foo/request/chkpt" line ?
>
>
> Regards,
> Henrik
>
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