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Re: [hobbit] File monitoring.



to my surprise, * actually works on my Hobbit-4.2rc1-20060712 server.

what's your test condition?  You want it to alert when your oldest file is
less than 2-hour old ?   More commonly, people want to test if their oldest
file is older than 2-hour old (mtime >7200 instead of mtime < 7200).

To further troubleshoot: on your client, check the
logfetch.ClientNameHere.cfg under ~hobbit/client/tmp/. Also check
msg.ClientNameHere.txt therein to see whether it has a
[file:/ftp/input/oldestFileName.gz]
section.


On 1/11/07, Jerry Yu <jjj863 (at) gmail.com> wrote:

both are ok,since .* is not greedy as in PERL's. The former is preferred since it provides more exact match.

On 1/11/07, Thomas < tlp-hobbit (at) holme-pedersen.dk> wrote:
>
> Do you mean like this ?
>
> FILE %/ftp/input/.*.gz RED mtime<7200 or
>
> FILE %/ftp/input/.* RED mtime<7200
>
> Jerry Yu 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
> > <mailto: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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