[hobbit] File monitoring.

[Thomas]

Do you mean like this ?

FILE %/ftp/input/.*.gz RED mtime<7200 or

FILE %/ftp/input/.* RED mtime<7200

Jerry Yu wrote:
> For wildcard, you want '.*' to represent any character instead of '*' 
> alone.  I have a handful of this kind of FILE checks.
>
> On 1/11/07, *Thomas * <tlp-hobbit at holme-pedersen.dk 
> <mailto:tlp-hobbit at holme-pedersen.dk>> wrote:
>
>     hi all,
>
>     Trying to get file monitoring to work. Works find with fixed filenames
>     but I need to match a pattern in a directory and find the oldest file.
>     If more than say 7200 sec old in mtime then generate an alert.
>
>     in client-local.cfg I have
>
>     file:`ls -t /ftp/input/* | tail -1`
>
>     which produces the oldest file name on the web page.
>
>     I have the following in hobbit-clients.cfg
>
>        FILE %/ftp/input/*.gz RED mtime<7200
>
>     but I get no alarms.
>
>     Any ideas ?
>
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