[hobbit] Sanity check for config files

s_aiello at comcast.net s_aiello at comcast.net
Thu Jul 3 15:09:58 CEST 2008


On Thursday 03 July 2008, T.J. Yang wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> > Hi all
> >
> > We have a number of teams, with a large number of servers per team, and
> > I wanted to give each more autonomy over how they set up their Hobbit
> > sub-page.
> > (Also means less work for me)
>
> Same needs here.
>
> > I was thinking of having a separate bb-hosts, hobbit-alerts.cfg and
> > hobbit-clients.cfg for each team, and then include in the case of
> > bb-hosts or run a cron job to concatenate the files, in the case of the
> > others.
>
> To my knowledge and practice, only bb-hosts support "include" directive.
> not hobbit-alerts.cfg and hobbit-client.cfg. I wish these two cfg files
> support include also.
>

They do, or at least hobbit-client.cfg & clients-local.cfg. I would guess that 
hobbit-alerts.cfg will to, Henrik is rather thorough in what works for one 
config file, works for others. But this should be either confirmed or tested. 
Past Mailing list answer pasted below for reference:

On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 02:59:58PM -0500, Gregory Wege wrote:
>> On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 10:55:22AM -0500, s_aiello at comcast.net wrote:
>> > I was curious if the hobbit-clients.cfg honored include directives.
>> 
>> It does.
>
> Does the same apply for the clients-local.cfg file?

Yes.

Regards,
Henrik



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