We recently encountered a problem with directory permissions on one of our web servers and so decided to update our Xymon installation (v4.2.3) to monitor it. Unfortunately I think I've found a bug in the code that facilitates this.
In the hobbit-client.cfg file we have a test like this:
FILE /var/somefile mode=755 owner=root groupid=root yellowThe owner test works fine but the group test doesn't, instead it say that the file should be owned by group 'd=root'. Further investigation shows that the owner test also fails in the same way if we use the 'ownerid=root' variation of the owner test. It's almost as if the code is assuming that the first 6 characters of the token is the name and everything else is the value. This works fine with the 'owner=root' variation but fails dismally with the 'ownerid=root' and 'groupid=root' variations. It would be fine if we could use 'group=root' but as that's a reserved word it's not allowed.
Unfortunately my C coding is virtually non-existent, I can get by with reading it but not writing it! Has anyone encountered this before and written a patch for it? Or has it been fixed in the 4.3.0 beta?
Thank you, Ian Marsh
IT Service Operations - Network Services