Just curious -- in other regex implementations you have to "escape" the dot if you want it to match a literal period (dot) instead of any character. Does PCRE work the same way? I am always getting bit by this when I am trying to match IP addresses and domain names...

So would HOST=%host.*.domain.com match both host.somewhere.domain.com as well as host.adomain-com.somewhere-else.com ?

Of course, in hobbit-alerts we know what our host names are going to look like -- a simpler problem to solve than when trying to match freeform text originating who-knows-where...

GLH

-----Original Message----- From: Henrik Stoerner [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk] Sent: Friday, August 25, 2006 2:50 AM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] hobbit-clients.cfg

On Fri, Aug 25, 2006 at 09:11:54AM +0200, Thomas wrote:

Anyway I turn it I can never get more hosts to match the same HOST definition even if I have to servers called server1 and server2 I put a HOST=%host*.domain.com but it will not match.

Nope, that one will match "hos.domain.com", "host.domain.com", "hostt.domain.com", "hosttttttttttttttt.domain.com" etc.

What you're after is HOST=%host.*.domain.com .

Anyway I am configuring a new host with PROC settings but I can never get the web page to display my settings. Should hobbit be restarted completly after changing the hobbit-clients.cfg filer ?

No, the hobbitd_client module will reload the config regularly, every 10 minutes. Or you can do a "kill -HUP <pid of hobbitd_client>" to force the config reload. After the config has reloaded, the new settings will show up when the client next reports to the server.

how can I test the file settings ?

Try setting them to something that should cause a yellow or red status.

Henrik

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