[hobbit] Alerting and regular expression

[Charles Jones]

James B Horwath wrote:

>
> I am converting from BB to Hobbit, Hobbit is a really nice piece of code.
>
> I am in the process of converting my rule set from BB to Hobbit and 
> have a couple of questions.
>
> I have found if I try to define this:
>
> $FOO_HOST=%*myhost
>
> I receive an error message because I start with a '*'.  I haven't 
> found the magic to escape this.  As a work-around I did this:
> $FOO_HOST=%[a-zA-Z0-9]*myhost

I think you have to either use wildcards, or regex. In other words:

$FOO_HOST=*myhost

or

$FOO_HOST=%(.+)myhost


-Charles
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