RE: [hobbit] Log monitoring

["Galen Johnson" <Galen.Johnson (at) sas.com>]

You rock, dude...that did it.  Now I just need to figure out why hobbit can't see the other logs.  It's a permissions thing I'm sure but I've made the hobbit user a member of the group that has access yet it seems like the secondary group membership is not being honored.  Anyone ever run into this?

=G= 

-----Original Message-----
From: Alan Sparks [mailto:asparks (at) doublesparks.net] 
Sent: Saturday, April 21, 2007 10:57 AM
To: hobbit (at) hswn.dk
Subject: Re: [hobbit] Log monitoring

Galen Johnson wrote:
> Hey,
>
> I'm having a minor issue with the logging functionality of hobbit.  I have a log file that is rolled daily and, as such, has a date embedded.  I've tried adding the entry like:
>
> log:/path/to/file_`date +%Y.%m.%d`.log:10240
>
> I got the impression from the docs and Henrik's site that this should be possible.  What am I missing?
>   
You can... but I think you can only do one or the other, not mix it.  A literal, or the whole thing a command in backquotes.
Perhaps if you try something like:
log:`date +'/path/to/file_%Y.%m.%d.log'`:10240

The file must be readable by the Hobbit user for monitoring to work, of course.
-Alan

I do something like the following for some servers, and it works, maybe you can adapt the concept to your needs:
log:`find /path/to/location -maxdepth 1 -name '

--
Alan Sparks, UNIX/Linux Systems Integration and Administration <asparks (at) doublesparks.net>


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