Thanks to Adam Goryachev, Jeremy Laidman, and the mysterious "Paul T Root" at Century Link for responding.

I wasn't familiar with EXHOST (more examples in the .cfg files would be helpful, Mr. Author sir), but I used "Paul"'s solution for the Tripwire exclusion and it works great:

"For 2, Instead of having tripwire in your defaults, have it in the last entry before defaults like this:

HOST=* EXHOST=macmini PROC "/opt/tripwire/te/agent/jre/bin/java" 1 1 red"

Thanks for that - I can use it in other places, like on my Linux RAID boxes where all but 2 of them run a 3ware daemon, etc.

Anyway, back to Time Machine and volumes with spaces, unfortunately I'm still getting the INODE alerts.

I've tried every RE in Jeremy's post and none of them are working. :-(

(As Jeremy and "Paul" pointed out, apparently when I am editing files at 4 AM, the dyslexia kicks in and I biffed the RE. Fixed now.)

Maybe if I show you the alert message it will help. I'm baffled by the

"<!-- ID=/Volumes/Time Machine Backups --> /Volumes/Time Machine Backups"

string construct in the tag I'm seeing, and wondering if that string isn't what is screwing things up with all these RE's I've been trying.

- Greg

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From: xymon Monitor <xymon at mgmt.my.do.main> Subject: Xymon [169050] macmini:inode CRITICAL (RED) Date: May 8, 2014 3:36:14 PM PDT To: Super User <root at my.do.main>

red Thu May 8 15:33:12 PDT 2014 - Filesystems NOT ok &red <!-- ID=/Volumes/Time Machine Backups --> /Volumes/Time Machine Backups (97% used) has reached the PANIC level (95%) &yellow <!-- ID=/Volumes/Macintosh HD --> /Volumes/Macintosh HD (93% used) has reached the WARNING level (90%)

Filesystem itotal iused ifree %iused Mounted /dev/disk0s2 237145994 178167303 58978691 75% /
/dev/disk1s2 244106666 236045350 8061316 97% /Volumes/Time Machine Backups /dev/disk2s2 176632084 164649661 11982423 93% /Volumes/Macintosh HD

See http://mgmt/xymon-cgi/svcstatus.sh?HOST=macmini&SERVICE=inode

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