[Xymon] xymon, xymon-rclient and md5sum checks

[Jeremy Laidman]

No, it's not using "stat".  Instead, it's using a series of shell commands,
and in some cases (such as for the "*time" and "group" lines) a bit of
perl.  If you're interested, you can check how it's all done in the
send_logfetch_file() function (from line 323).  This function essentially
creates a sequence of commands that get sent to the shell on the remote
client.

I have no idea why it's not working for Solaris.  But I can confirm that
it's not working for my Solaris boxes also.  This means I can do some
testing here and (I hope) come up with a fix.  Sorry I can't offer any more
at this stage.

J



On 5 June 2015 at 05:47, oliver <ohemming at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 9:57 PM, Jeremy Laidman <jlaidman at rebel-it.com.au>
> wrote:
> >> 1) Should this be working or is it a limitation of xymon-rclient?
> >
> >
> > It's the latter, I'm afraid.  :-(
> >
> > xymon-rclient is intended to (among other things) emulate logfetch,
> which is
> > where the md5 hashing is implemented.  I don't believe any part of Xymon
> > (client or server) uses the MD5 environment variable, so setting will
> have
> > no effect.
>
> Thanks for confirming.  I missed your comments in the script about
> 'hash field' because I was looking for md5 - d'oh.
>
> I've switched to checking file size instead and have this in my
> analysis.cfg:
> FILE /etc/sudoers red SIZE=1192
>
> It works for a linux client but not for a solaris one.  Is this a
> problem with Xymon's .../client/bin/xymonclient-sunos.sh file or
> something I need to modify in the xymon-rclient.sh script?
>
> If I click on the 'red' filename from a Solaris box, I see this:
> [file:/etc/sudoers]
>
> If I click on the 'green' filename from a Linux box, I see this:
> [file:/etc/sudoers]
> type:100000 (file)
> mode:440 (-r--r-----)
> linkcount:1
> owner:0 (root)
> group:0 (root)
> size:1192
> clock:1433446819
> atime:1433446799
> ctime:1433420119
> mtime:1433420119
>
> and I assumed this was output from 'stat' that the Solaris one is
> obviously missing
>
> I tried symlinking /usr/bin/stat to /usr/local/bin/stat on the Solaris
> box but it stays red.
>
> Any idea where to go from here?
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