[hobbit] msgs column match-pattern

Dominique Frise Dominique.Frise at unil.ch
Mon Apr 24 08:06:54 CEST 2006


John Glowacki wrote:
> John Glowacki wrote:
> 
>> Dominique Frise wrote:
>>
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> In hobbit-client.cfg we tried following rule:
>>>
>>>     LOG %.* WARNING yellow
>>>
>>> But messages with "WARNING" never trigger a yellow status.
>>>
>>>
>>> When we put a regexp like this:
>>>
>>>     LOG %.* %WARNING yellow
>>>
>>>
>>> Messages with "WARNING" AND "warning" (small caps) trigger a yellow 
>>> status
>>> Is this the expected behaviour?
>>>
>>>
>>> Dominique
>>>
>>
>> I would hope that is not the expected behavior. But I can confirm that 
>> I am having the same. It matched on upper and lower cases.
>>
>> John
>>
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> 
> Dominique,
> 
> It seems that pcre is defaulted to caseless matching. Set (?-i) to turn 
> off PCRE_CASELESS. See pcre man pages http://www.pcre.org/pcre.txt.
> 
> Example my testing using that setting.
> 
> hobbit.clients.cfg:
>         LOG     /var/log/messages %(?-i)WARNING yellow
>         LOG     /var/log/messages %(?-i)FAILED red
> 
> /var/log/messages file:
> test FAIL 1
> test FAILED 1
> test fail 1
> test failed 1
> test WARN 1
> test WARNING 1
> test warn 1
> test warning 1
> 
> Web page results:
> Critical entries in /var/log/messages
> yellow test WARNING 1
> red test FAILED 1
> 
> John
> 
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> 
Thanks a lot John for this tip, I will try this asap.
This means that I have to double check all my DISK/PROC settings because I nead 
  case sensitive matching there to!


Dominique



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