[hobbit] monitoring logs only if they exist

Charles Jones jonescr at cisco.com
Fri Jun 16 01:00:02 CEST 2006


Jon Hittner wrote:
> I have machines that may or may not have a specific log file.   How do I 
> configure hobbit to only retrieve the logs if they exist?   Right now, I have 
> msgs yellow with "Logfile not accessible" on any host without this log and I 
> would like to have them show up as green.
>   
If all else fails, you could always just do a "touch logfilename" to 
make a zero byte logfile for hobbit to find.
-Charles



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