[hobbit] directory test

Your find is looking for the existence of the directory, not the non-existence. So the green status is correct.

Change it to an 'if' statement like

if [ $(find /tata -d -name toto_*) ]; then echo &red ; else echo &green ; fi

Or something similar

Alternatively, you can look into the correct useage of the '!'-operator (boolean NOT) in your 'find' expression. I could not find the correct way to use it quick enough, sorry.

-----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- Van: dOCtoR MADneSs [mailto:doctor at makelofine.org] Verzonden: donderdag 26 februari 2009 14:18 Aan: hobbit at hswn.dk Onderwerp: Re: [hobbit] directory test

Henrik Størner a écrit :

On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 02:29:28PM +0100, dOCtoR MADneSs wrote:

...

I'm using actually xymon 4.2.3. I check for presence of some files (red if present, else green ), and it's working very well. I'd like to do almost same test with directory. Final objective is : if there is any directory called toto_ANYTHING in /tata (to any level in the directory hierarchy of /tata, I'd like yellow result, else green result).

Not sure if it will work, but I'd start with something like [host] file:find /tata -name toto_* That gives you a list of the files you're looking for. And then in hobbit-clients.cfg you would have

HOST=host FILE %^/tata/toto_ yellow noexist

Regards, Henrik

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Thanks for your answer, unfortunately this didn't work. If I replace file:find /tata -name toto_* with with file:$(find /tata -name toto_*) I can get :

green $(find /tata -type d -name toto_*) But it's wrong, I have a toto_test directory in /tata

So, I don't think it's the appropriate solution

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