On Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 10:50:26AM -0500, Rich Smrcina wrote:
Ok, that's great info. Thanks!
Based on that I'm ending up with an expression like:
HOST=$va[\d\w]*$
To match any host beginning with 'va' that has zero or more alphanumeric characters after it. Is there an easier way to write this? If not that's fine, I just want to make sure I'm using it correctly.
I'd say HOST=%^va[\d]*$
You need the "%" first, to tell Hobbit that what comes next is a regexp. Then the "^" means that the expression must match at the beginning of the string. "\w" is whitespace ? Think so - in that case it is not needed, since Hobbit will never match with any whitepace in the hostname.
Another poster (Asif Iqbal) posted the MAIL directives with multiple recipients. Does that work like he posted? Can the multiple email recipients be put into a macro? Consider the following:
$pg-tom=(tomsemail at somewhere.com|tomscell at wireless.com) HOST=tomshost MAIL $pg-tom DURATION=5m COLOR=red
What comes after the MAIL keyword is passed directly to your "mail" utility. So it would probably be better to have
$pg-tom=tomsemail at somewhere.com,tomscell at wireless.com
if your "mail" tool supports listing multiple recipients separated by commas. Some dont - then you can use a short-hand notation like:
$pg-tom=tomsemail at somewhere.com tomscell at wireless.com
and separate them by spaces - Hobbit will handle this as if you had multiple "MAIL ..." lines with each of the mail recipients. So it sends out the mail in separate e-mails, instead of one e-mail to all of the recipients. (Same net effect).
One more thing: I'm sure "DURATION=5m" is not what you want. Make that "DURATION>5m".
Regards, Henrik