[xymon] ignore certain things in a log file

On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 10:44 AM, Kevin Kelly <kkelly at lifetouch.com> wrote:

Could somebody tell me why this won’t work?

HOST=testserver

    LOG     %/var/adm/messages kern "IGNORE=%(corrupt label|wrong magic

number)"

Trying to ignore all lines in the messages file that contain those key words.

Thanks

Kevin

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I'm not sure why you have the parens in the pattern, but you might try taking them out. Also, if that doesn't work, try dropping the quotes and replacing each space with \s. Steve