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

Scott Mohnkern mohnkern at gmail.com
Thu Nov 1 21:38:57 CET 2007


Well, at least its replicatable.


Scott


On 11/1/07, Scott Mohnkern <mohnkern at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Thanks for the help.  I edited /etc/hobbit/hobbit-clients.cfg so the line
> reads:
>
> FILE /etc/passwd GREEN noexist
>
> still no joy.
>
> Is there anyone on the list that has an example of a FILE line in their
> hobbit-clients.cfg file?
>
> On 11/1/07, Hubbard, Greg L < greg.hubbard at eds.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > 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.
> >
> >
> >  ------------------------------
> >  *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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