On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 11:19:17AM -0400, Bill Matthews wrote:
Greetings,
I've been able to do some basic regular expression matching using the examples in hobbit-clients.cfg.
For example, this works fine: HOST=%(server1|server2|server3).domain.com
But this doesn't: HOST=%(server*).domain.com
I'm sure I'm just missing the syntax for wildcard matching?
Yep, this one is a classic: "*" means "zero or more occurrences of the previous letter", so when you write "server*", it means "0 or more occurrences of letter 'r'". I.e. it matches "serve", "server", "serverr" and so on.
You should use the "." wildcard character. Like HOST=%(server.*).domain.com
Also is there a way to define a test for every server except some hosts? I have a lot of tests I would love to put in the DEFAULT section, but I have a couple hosts that the tests would fail for.
Use the EXHOST setting, just like "HOST" but it excludes hosts - this can be used with or without a HOST setting. E.g.
EXHOST=%badhost.*\.domain\.com
PROC cronis a valid way of checking that "cron" is running on all hosts, except those called "badhost<something>"
Regards, Henrik