[hobbit] Re: New to Hobbit --- file monitoring

Scott Mohnkern mohnkern at gmail.com
Thu Nov 1 21:59:36 CET 2007


Nope, no joy there either.  the man page seems to think it should be:

FILE <full path to file><color> <condition>

and that's pretty consistent with the other things I've put into the same
file, which come up.

I also tried:

FILE "/etc/passwd" green noexist TRACK

and

FILE "/etc/passwd" green noexist


Scott



On 11/1/07, Hubbard, Greg L <greg.hubbard at eds.com> wrote:
>
>  Try this
>
> FILE /etc/passwd noexist COLOR=green TRACK
>
>  ------------------------------
> *From:* Scott Mohnkern [mailto:mohnkern at gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Thursday, November 01, 2007 3:39 PM
> *To:* hobbit at hswn.dk
> *Subject:* Re: [hobbit] Re: New to Hobbit --- file monitoring
>
> Well, at least its replicatable.
>
>
> Scott
>
>
> On 11/1/07, Scott Mohnkern < mohnkern at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Thanks for the help.  I edited /etc/hobbit/hobbit-clients.cfg so the
> > line reads:
> >
> > FILE /etc/passwd GREEN noexist
> >
> > still no joy.
> >
> > Is there anyone on the list that has an example of a FILE line in their
> > hobbit-clients.cfg file?
> >
> > On 11/1/07, Hubbard, Greg L < greg.hubbard at eds.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > Try removing the TRACK keyword, and then change NOEXIST to lower case.  I think Henrik has reported that there are a few bugs in this code,
> > > and it is not always clear when case matters and when it doesn't, or
> > > when the order of the arguments matters.
> > >
> > >
> > >  ------------------------------
> > >  *From:* Scott Mohnkern [mailto:mohnkern at gmail.com]
> > > *Sent:* Thursday, November 01, 2007 3:10 PM
> > > *To:* hobbit at hswn.dk
> > > *Subject:* [hobbit] Re: New to Hobbit --- file monitoring
> > >
> > >  When all else fails, nuke it and start over.  I did an apt-get remove
> > > hobbit, and then a dpkg -- purge.  Then I removed any files I could find.
> > > Then I downloaded the Ubuntu deb file and installed it.  It put the
> > > configuration files in /etc/hobbit and it started fine
> > >
> > > I edited /etc/hobbit/hobbit-clients.cfg and added the following line:
> > >
> > > PROC ntpd 1 99 green "TEXT=NTPD is up"
> > >
> > >
> > > Restarted hobbit, and in a few minutes, it started reporting as
> > > expected.
> > >
> > > Then I added:
> > >
> > > PORT "LOCAL=%(:8888)" TEXT="Gnump is up"
> > >
> > > To the same file, (/etc/hobbit/hobbit-clients.cfg) and restared
> > > hobbit.
> > >
> > > A few minutes later, the ports section started reporting, as expected.
> > >
> > >
> > > (Though I realize that its a bit off, which I need to fix)
> > >
> > >
> > > Then I added:
> > >
> > > FILE /etc/passwd GREEN NOEXIST track
> > >
> > > Reading the documentation inside hobbit-clients.cfg I edited
> > > /etc/hobbit/client- local.cfg and added the following line:
> > > file:/etc/passwd
> > >
> > > restarted hobbit, waited 5 minutes.  No luck.
> > >
> > >
> > > I'm pretty convinced that either:
> > >
> > > 1. the format of the line  in /etc/hobbit/client-local.cfg or
> > > /etc/hobbit/hobbit-clients.cfg is incorrect, or
> > > 2. There's something else I need to edit.
> > >
> > >
> >
>
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