[Xymon] Potential bug in FILE analysis

[Bill Arlofski]

On 05/22/14 21:21, Vernon Everett wrote:
> ...the same as if you just hardcoded /var/crash/bounds and /var/crash/vmdump.0....
> 
> As soon as I read this, I had my "D'oh!" moment.
> Of course, the "sudo find" only generates the list of files to check.
> So not a bug. A permissions error.
> 
> Anybody know of a way to give Xymon elevated access permissions when it stats
> files it's checking?
> I would prefer not to change the directory permissions if I can avoid it.

Hi Vernon

You have just hit on a similar issue I posted recently:

Subject: Possible BUG in how Xymon interprets data for monitoring "FILE" and
"MSGS"

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