[hobbit] hosts wildcards in clients-local.cfg

Szymon Bakowski szymon at bakowski.net
Sat Jan 12 18:29:11 CET 2008


>On Thu, Jan 10, 2008 at 12:34:12PM +0000, Szymon.Bakowski (at)
ladbrokes.co.uk wrote:
>> Just wanted to ask a quick question (went through the archive, but haven't
>> found an answer for my question):
>>
>> Is it possible to use host wildcards in clients-local.cfg file ? They do
>> work for me for example in hobbit-clients.cfg but it seems that I can not
>> make it work in clients-local.cfg. In hobbit-clients.cfg I am using for
>> example as follows:
>>
>> HOST=%www..\.foo\.com
>>
>> but it doesn't work in clients-local.cfg.
>
>No, you cannot.
>
>The way around this is to use host "classes". The default class for a
>host is the name of the operating system - that's why the "[linux]" and
>"[hpux]" etc. sections work. You can change the class of a host either
>by configuring it with the CLASS:classname setting in bb-hosts, or by
>specifying the class on the client when you start the Hobbit client.
>
>It is a bit annoying that you cannot use regexp's in client-local.cfg.
>Might be something I change.
>
>
>Regards,
>Henrik


Thank you Henrik for your reply. Classes did help indeed. Can I use
them in other config files like for example in hobbit-clients.cfg ?

Regards
Szymon



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