[hobbit] PCRE reference with examples

[Rich Smrcina]

Henrik Stoerner wrote:
> 
> 
> I'd say
>   HOST=%^va[\d]*$
> 
> You need the "%" first, to tell Hobbit that what comes next is a regexp.
> Then the "^" means that the expression must match at the beginning of
> the string. "\w" is whitespace ? Think so - in that case it is not
> needed, since Hobbit will never match with any whitepace in the
> hostname.
>

Based on the tutorial, \w is a word character (usually letters, 
underscores).  Good tip about beginning of string.

> 
> 
> What comes after the MAIL keyword is passed directly to your "mail"
> utility. So it would probably be better to have
> 
>    $pg-tom=tomsemail at somewhere.com,tomscell at wireless.com
> 
> if your "mail" tool supports listing multiple recipients separated by
> commas. Some dont - then you can use a short-hand notation like:
> 
>    $pg-tom=tomsemail at somewhere.com tomscell at wireless.com
> 
> and separate them by spaces - Hobbit will handle this as if you had
> multiple "MAIL ..." lines with each of the mail recipients. So it sends
> out the mail in separate e-mails, instead of one e-mail to all of the
> recipients. (Same net effect).

Then is the syntax for using macros in the MAIL line the same as HOST:

$pg-tom=tomsemail at somewhere.com tomscell at wireless.com

HOST %^va.*$
	MAIL=%$pg-tom

When I run this through 'bbcmd hobbitd-alert --test' I get two lines 
that look like this:

00008432 2005-10-13 14:30:06 Failed 'MAIL %$pg-tom 
DURATION>5 COLOR=red' (min. duration 0<300)

I would have expected the actual email addresses...

> 
> 
> One more thing: I'm sure "DURATION=5m" is not what you want. Make that
> "DURATION>5m".

Correct, I typed it into the message incorrectly.

Thanks.
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