[hobbit] Re: New to Hobbit --- file monitoring

Hubbard, Greg L greg.hubbard at eds.com
Thu Nov 1 21:23:42 CET 2007


Try removing the TRACK keyword, and then change NOEXIST to lower case.
I think Henrik has reported that there are a few bugs in this code,
and it is not always clear when case matters and when it doesn't, or
when the order of the arguments matters.
 
 
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From: Scott Mohnkern [mailto:mohnkern at gmail.com] 
Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2007 3:10 PM
To: hobbit at hswn.dk
Subject: [hobbit] Re: New to Hobbit --- file monitoring



	When all else fails, nuke it and start over.  I did an apt-get
remove hobbit, and then a dpkg -- purge.  Then I removed any files I
could find.  Then I downloaded the Ubuntu deb file and installed it.  It
put the configuration files in /etc/hobbit and it started fine 
	
	I edited /etc/hobbit/hobbit-clients.cfg and added the following
line:
	
	PROC ntpd 1 99 green "TEXT=NTPD is up"
	
	
	Restarted hobbit, and in a few minutes, it started reporting as
expected.
	
	Then I added:
	
	PORT "LOCAL=%(:8888)" TEXT="Gnump is up"
	
	To the same file, (/etc/hobbit/hobbit-clients.cfg) and restared
hobbit.
	
	A few minutes later, the ports section started reporting, as
expected. 
	
	(Though I realize that its a bit off, which I need to fix)
	
	
	Then I added:
	
	FILE /etc/passwd GREEN NOEXIST track
	
	Reading the documentation inside hobbit-clients.cfg I edited
/etc/hobbit/client- local.cfg and added the following line:
	file:/etc/passwd
	
	restarted hobbit, waited 5 minutes.  No luck.
	
	
	I'm pretty convinced that either:
	
	1. the format of the line  in /etc/hobbit/client-local.cfg or
/etc/hobbit/hobbit-clients.cfg is incorrect, or
	2. There's something else I need to edit.
	
	

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