On Tue, Jun 06, 2006 at 05:52:39PM +0200, Dirk Kastens wrote:

On the server I specified three logfiles to monitor in the client-local.cfg:

[my.client.hostname] log:/var/log/messages:10240 log:/var/log/dsmsched.log:10240 log:/var/log/dsmerror.log:10240

But nothing happens. The logfiles are not touched and there's no logfetch.cfg file in the client's tmp directory. When I configure the client with server side configuration it works.

Can I use logfile monitoring with client side configuration?

You can, but it requires a different configuration. And that isn't described anywhere, sorry.

1. The stuff you put into client-local.cfg on the Hobbit server is never transferred to the client when you're running with client- side configuration. So you need to take that, and put it into $BBHOME/tmp/logfetch.HOSTNAME.cfg (which is a stupid location, when you're running in client-side config mode - I'll change that to go into $BBHOME/etc/logfetch.cfg)

2. You need to setup the equivalent of the hobbit-clients.cfg file on the client, in $BBHOME/etc/localclient.cfg

With those two things in place, all of the client features should work.

Regards, Henrik