Re: [hobbit] File monitoring.

["Jerry Yu" <jjj863 (at) gmail.com>]

another thing I do is use /bin/ls instead of 'ls', so the file name
generated by the backticks won't contain any termcap escape characters or
alike.

On 1/11/07, Jerry Yu <jjj863 (at) gmail.com> wrote:
> For wildcard, you want '.*' to represent any character instead of '*'
> alone.  I have a handful of this kind of FILE checks.
>
> On 1/11/07, Thomas <tlp-hobbit (at) holme-pedersen.dk> wrote:
> >
> > hi all,
> >
> > Trying to get file monitoring to work. Works find with fixed filenames
> > but I need to match a pattern in a directory and find the oldest file.
> > If more than say 7200 sec old in mtime then generate an alert.
> >
> > in client-local.cfg I have
> >
> > file:`ls -t /ftp/input/* | tail -1`
> >
> > which produces the oldest file name on the web page.
> >
> > I have the following in hobbit-clients.cfg
> >
> >    FILE %/ftp/input/*.gz RED mtime<7200
> >
> > but I get no alarms.
> >
> > Any ideas ?
> >
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