Bug? CLASS in hobbit-clients.cfg, CLASS: assigned in bb-hosts

Hobbit 4.2.0 + allinone on CentOS 4.6.

I have created hosts in bb-hosts similar to the following: 10.1.24.172 den1log15 # CLASS:dblogRx conn ssh

I have added rules to hobbit-clients.cfg as follows: HOST=%den[123]log[0-9] PROC logRcvr CLASS=dblogRx EXHOST=den1log09

This does not work -- the process is not monitored. If I use a HOST= clause, regex or explicit, it does work.

Why are CLASS directives, set in the bb-hosts file, not honored? Thanks. -Alan