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'msgs' test log content not being sent to Hobbit server

list David Mostardi
Tue, 24 Jul 2007 22:36:37 +0100
Message-Id: <1FDB9E4E8E1A1F41865987D216E56D4110B7CD55@mdlsloexc1001r>

I have been unable to get the msgs test to work. I have configured
client-local.cfg
 
    [sunos]
    log:/var/adm/messages:10240
 
and hobbit-clients.cfg
 
    HOST=cicero
    LOG %/var/adm/messages %fatal COLOR=red
 
The Hobbit server sends Cicero the client-local.cfg directives, because
Cicero's ~hobbit/client/tmp/logfetch.cicero.cfg shows
 
    log:/var/adm/messages:10240
 
but if I look in ~hobbit/client/tmp/msgs.cicero.txt it says:
 
    [msgs:/var/adm/messages]
 
    [logfile:/var/adm/messages]
    type:100000 (file)
    mode:644 (-rw-r--r--)
    ...
    ...

The messages file has been stocked exclusively with messages containing the
word 'fatal'. The stanza 'logfile:/var/adm/messages' knows the file is large
and visible, but the stanza 'msgs:/var/adm/messages' says the file is null,
and that's evidently what gets reported back to the Hobbit server. So my
msgs test never goes from green to red.
 
What am I doing wrong?
 
Thanks,
David

David Mostardi 
Advisory Systems Manager 
Elsevier MDL 
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