[hobbit] Question for regular expression in hobbit-alerts.cfg

[Henrik Stoerner]

On Mon, Jul 23, 2007 at 04:27:43PM -0500, T.J. Yang wrote:
> I written down as "ra.*.mywork.com" in hobbit-alerts.cfg file.
> but turns out it also catch "sdultra72.mywork.com" type of hostname.
> 
> currently the pattern is changed to "^ra.*.mywork.com" so 
> "sdultr72.mywork.com" won't be matched.
> 
> Question is do I have change my other hostname pattern to start with ^  
> (1st character started with )  symbol  ? , Just to be on safe side ?

If You expect the patterns should match from the beginning of the hostname,
then adding the anchor is the safest way to achieve that.


Regards,
Henrik