[Xymon] checking for symlinks

[oliver]

Applied patch to source, recompiled and installed but no change in
behaviour I'm afraid

On Wed, Jul 1, 2015 at 2:51 PM, J.C. Cleaver <cleaver at terabithia.org> wrote:
>
> On Wed, July 1, 2015 10:07 am, oliver wrote:
>> I'm using Xymon 4.3.21 on a linux host with mix of linux and solaris
>> clients
>>
>> Is checking whether a file is symlink supported in analysis.cfg?  The
>> man page doesn't mention it but client_config.c does look like it
>> should work.
>>
>> I have this in analysis.cfg
>> FILE /etc/.sudoers.local red type=symlink
>>
>> My test goes red with the following statement:
>> File is a file - should be symlink
>>
>> If I click on it, I see this:
>> [file:/etc/.sudoers.local]
>> type:100000 (file, symlink -> /bw/local/etc/.sudoers.local)
>> mode:440 (-r--r-----)
>> linkcount:1
>> owner:0 (root)
>> group:0 (root)
>> size:102
>> clock:1435770054 (2015/07/01-17:00:54)
>> atime:1336161370 (2012/05/04-19:56:10)
>> ctime:1377011564 (2013/08/20-15:12:44)
>> mtime:1377011564 (2013/08/20-15:12:44)
>>
>> To prove it's a symlink:
>> # ls -l /etc/.sudoers.local
>> lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root          28 Aug  2  2011
>> /etc/.sudoers.local -> /bw/local/etc/.sudoers.local
>>
>> What am I doing wrong?
>
>
> I believe this is a bug. Might never have really been fully implemented,
> actually.
>
> Can you try the following patch (untested) and see if it works for you?
>
>
> Regards,
>
> -jc