I don't agree. The regexp support should not brake previous configuration.

BTW, the new man-page has not changed regarding the section name :

... FILE FORMAT The file is divided into sections, delimited by "[name]" lines. A section name can be either an operating system identifier - linux, solaris, hp-ux, aix, freebsd, openbsd, netbsd, darwin - or a hostname. When deciding which section to send to a client, Xymon will first look for a section named after the hostname of the client; if such a section does not exist, it will look for a section named by the operating system of the client. So you can configure special configurations for individual hosts, and have a default configuration for all other hosts of a certain type.

    It will often be practical to use regular expressions  for  host-
    names.  To do this you must use

        [host=<expression>]

    where  <expression>  is a Perl-compatible regular expression. The
    same kind of matching can be done on  operating  system  or  host
    class, using

        [os=<expresssion>]
        [class=<expression>]

    Apart  from  the section delimiter, the file format is free-form,
    or rather it is defined by the tools that make use of the config-
    uration.

...

Dominique

On 02/05/2014 06:22 PM, Galen Johnson wrote:

If I'm not mistaken, the fix to allow regex in client-local.cfg also will append all matches as a single entity. If it has several similar entries, it will munge them together. Check out the new client-local.cfg man page. You might be able to change monk entry to [host=monk] and see if that returns what you expect.

On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 10:51 AM, Dominique Frise <dominique.frise at unil.ch <mailto:dominique.frise at unil.ch>> wrote:

Hi,

We updated our xymon-server from version 4.3.11 to 4.3.15.
The client-local.cfg does not seem to be handled the way it was.

Example :

[linux]
log:/var/log/messages:10240
ignore MARK
trigger Error|error|ERROR

[monk]
log:/var/log/messages:102400
ignore mDNSPlatformSendUDP\sgot\__serror\s22
ignore read_data
log:/var/log/logwatch:10240


Which mean that we want to overwrite default linux settings for
"monk" client.

But there is the resulting content of logfetch.monk.cfg on the client :

[xymon at monk tmp]$ cat logfetch.monk.cfg
log:/var/log/messages:10240
ignore MARK
trigger Error|error|ERROR
log:/var/log/messages:102400
ignore mDNSPlatformSendUDP\sgot\__serror\s22
ignore read_data
log:/var/log/logwatch:10240


The default settings are there too !?
Did we missed a patch/advice for this ?

Thanks,

Dominique
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