[hobbit] hobbit-alerts question

So are you saying it should be HOST=%"^regex.*com$" or HOST="%^regex.*com$" ?

Gore, David W (David) wrote:

As it has been pointed out before somethings require double quotes ".
If that works, then this would be one of those cases. All our regexes are typically in double quotes.

David

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*From:* Larry Barber [mailto:lebarber at gmail.com]
*Sent:* Thursday, May 17, 2007 18:34
*To:* hobbit at hswn.dk
*Subject:* Re: [hobbit] hobbit-alerts question

That's what I think.

Thanks,
Larry Barber

On 5/17/07, *Steve Holmes* <sholmes42 at mac.com
<mailto:sholmes42 at mac.com>> wrote:

    Hang on there! Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think the point is
    that the $ should anchor the end of the string and it should
    never match pandora. Right?
    Steve.


    On 5/17/07, *Rick Ridgeway* <ridgeway at nyroc.rr.com
    <mailto:ridgeway at nyroc.rr.com>> wrote:

        HOST=%^pan$
        or
        HOST=pan


        Hope that helps


        Larry Barber wrote:
        >  I am having a problem with alerts going to the wrong
        people. I have a
        >  line in hobbit-alerts.cfg:
        >
        >  HOST=%pan$
        >
        >  (this is just for demo and test purposes, I know that
        particular entry
        >  doesn't make a lot of sense ) The problem is that this
        line is matching
        >  with a host name "pandora". Is there any way to stop this?
        >
        >  Thanks,
        >  Larry Barber

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