Question for regular expression in hobbit-alerts.cfg
I have a rule trying to catch name name like ra1234.mywork.com, ratest.mywork.com etc.
So I written down as "ra.*.mywork.com" in hobbit-alerts.cfg file.
but turns out it also catch "sdultra72.mywork.com" type of hostname.
currently the pattern is changed to "^ra.*.mywork.com" so "sdultr72.mywork.com" won't be matched.
Question is do I have change my other hostname pattern to start with ^ (1st character started with ) symbol ? , Just to be on safe side ?
T.J. Yang
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On Mon, Jul 23, 2007 at 04:27:43PM -0500, T.J. Yang wrote:
I written down as "ra.*.mywork.com" in hobbit-alerts.cfg file. but turns out it also catch "sdultra72.mywork.com" type of hostname.
currently the pattern is changed to "^ra.*.mywork.com" so "sdultr72.mywork.com" won't be matched.
Question is do I have change my other hostname pattern to start with ^
(1st character started with ) symbol ? , Just to be on safe side ?
If You expect the patterns should match from the beginning of the hostname, then adding the anchor is the safest way to achieve that.
Regards, Henrik
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