Can't get msgs test to work with client in local mode

[Mark Robson <markxr (at) gmail.com>]

Hiya,

I'm trying to get the msgs test to work with Hobbit (xymon 4.2.3) in local
mode.

I've got the following in my clientlaunch.cfg

# The main client task
[client]
        ENVFILE $HOBBITCLIENTHOME/etc/hobbitclient.cfg
        CMD $HOBBITCLIENTHOME/bin/hobbitclient.sh --local
        LOGFILE $HOBBITCLIENTHOME/logs/hobbitclient.log
        INTERVAL 5m

Which is supposed to run the client with --local mode.

Other tests work.

Hobbit reports the status as "clear" with the message "The client did not
report any logfile data" no matter what is in /var/log/messages.

I've got

LOG /var/log/messages %error|ERROR

In etc/localclient.cfg

Other directives in localclient.cfg (for example PROC, or PORT) are
respected and appear to work as documented.

I think I've tracked down the problem to the $LOGFETCHCFG file never getting
created. I don't quite understand the code, but I think it's supposed to
fetch some config from the server into a file in
=$BBTMP/logfetch.$MACHINEDOTS.cfg, which never gets created.

This file is never created despite the server having the following in
client-local.cfg:

[linux]
log:/var/log/messages:10240
ignore MARK

The system is identifying itself as "linux".

Any ideas?

Regards

Mark