Re: [hobbit] msgs column alerts (hobbit-4.2-alfa-20060404)

[John Glowacki <johng (at) idttechnology.com>]

Dominique Frise wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> After some debugging (client_config.c:scan_log), I finally could trigger 
> yellow or red state on the msgs column!
>
> 1/ logfilename
> Unlike what the man page says, the logfilename must include the 
> directory OR it must be a regexp (leading %)
>
> Examples:
>
> LOG /var/log/messages
> LOG %messages
>
> LOG messages <-- won't work!
>
> 2/ pattern
> The string to match must be a regexp
>
> Examples:
>
> %warning
> warning <-- won't work!
>
>
> I did not try the excludepattern.
>
>
> Dominique
> UNIL - University of Lausanne

Dominique,

That is just what I needed to get started. Where did you find a man page 
that explains LOG? I didn't see one.

Setting yellow and red rules to these:
LOG     %messages %error yellow
LOG     %messages %warn red

Echoed the following to the messages file:
warn10
warn error 10
error10

Displayed the following alerts:
Critical entries in /var/log/messages
yellow warn error 10
yellow error10
red warn10
red warn error 10

Full log /var/log/messages
warn10
warn error 10
error10

I didn't have any luck with setting ignoreexp either.

John