[hobbit] Suggestion for Defaults

Asif Iqbal iqbala-hobbit at qwestip.net
Mon Feb 21 22:02:48 CET 2005


On Mon, Feb 21, 2005 at 02:03:10PM, Asif Iqbal wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 07:58:28AM, Henrik Stoerner wrote:
> > On Sun, Feb 13, 2005 at 12:38:07PM -0500, Asif Iqbal wrote:
> > [...] 
> > This was added in RC2. Doing
> > 
> >     MAIL webmaster at foo.com admin at foo.com COLOR=red
> > 
> > will work as you expect it to. If you have a macro that expands to
> > several mail-adresses, then that will work too. Like
> > 
> >     $ADMINS="webmaster at foo.com engineering at foo.com"
> > 
> >     HOST=*
> >         MAIL $ADMINS COLOR=red
> 
> I noticed if I have it setup like this
> 
> HOST=* SERVICE=msgs
> 	SCRIPT /path/to/script email1 at here.com email2 at here.com FORMAT=TEXT
> 
> And then I did a test like ./bin/bbcmd hobbitd_alert --test host1 msgs 
> I get like this
> 
>  *** Match with 'HOST=* SERVICE=msgs' ***
> Script alert with command '/path/to/script' and recipient email1 at here.com
> Mail alert with command 'mailx -s "BB [12345] host1:msgs is RED" email2 at here.com'
> 
> Shouldn't the second like also be part of Script alert instead of Mail
> alert?
> 

I also noticed that same alert related to the same line in
/var/adm/messages is keep coming every 5 mins when I you SCRIPT. It
seems not the case with MAIL

> Thanks for your help
> 
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