[Xymon] Question about client-local.cfg

[Colin Coe]

Sheesh, this is why one should not post early on Monday morning prior
to second coffee....

The username is enmac but I was attempting to sanitize...

Ahh, of course.  we just want the filename, not the verbose output from 'ls'...

Many thanks

CC


On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 7:45 AM, J.C. Cleaver <cleaver at terabithia.org> wrote:
>
>
> On Sun, March 9, 2014 3:47 pm, Colin Coe wrote:
>> On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 6:38 AM, Colin Coe <colin.coe at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hi all
>>>
>>> Server info:
>>> Host - RHEL6.5
>>> Version - 4.3.17
>>> Packaged by J Cleaver (Terabithia)
>>>
>>> I'm having a problem with a definition in /etc/xymon/client-local.cfg.
>>> ---
>>> [host=dmz_ap01]
>>> file:`ls -ltr /home/enmac/customer-data/CUST9100REP*CSV | tail -n 1`
>>> ---
>>> The problem is that Xymon reports bad (red) with the page showing
>>> ---
>>>  -rw-r--r-- 1 username groupname14314345 Mar 10  2014
>>> /home/username/customer-data/CUST9100REP20140310002349.CSV
>>> File is missing
>>> ---
>>> Now, the file is not missing, and Xymon is correctly showing its mode,
>>> size, ownership details, etc.
>>> Any ideas what I've done wrong here?
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>> CC
>>>
>
>
> Hi Colin,
>
> Well, the first (obvious) question would be whether 'enmac' or 'username'
> were typos there -- or if they're not referring to the same path.
> Otherwise I believe simple file globs (or their equivalent) are expected
> there by logfetch and the '-l' option (ell) you're giving to 'ls' might be
> confusing it. Can you try it without that?
>
> HTH,
>
> -jc
>
>



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