Re: [hobbit] PATCH: ignore .rpm* debris in directories included in config files

[Buchan Milne <bgmilne (at) staff.telkomsa.net>]

On Tuesday 24 March 2009 23:51:35 Cleaver, Japheth wrote:
> This patch alters hobbit-wide "directory" include reading logic to skip
> files that have been replaced or left over by an RPM install.
> Specifically, we're splitting hobbitlaunch.cfg into a directory of
> files, but we don't want to read in things tweaked by a package upgrade;
> and there's no way to exclude those in the syntax...

My original proposal for this feature was to support an include syntax, (e.g. 
include /etc/xymon/hobbitlaunch.d/*.cfg), but this was not accepted and 
instead implemented with the include syntax.

However, a hard-coded rpm-specific solution is probably not going to be any 
more attractive to merge ...

Henrik, you really should try and solve this problem if you want to see Xymon 
adopted by more distros ....