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File monitoring.

list Jerry Yu
Thu, 11 Jan 2007 10:03:33 -0500
Message-Id: <user-888373b1493d@xymon.invalid>

another thing I do is use /bin/ls instead of 'ls', so the file name
generated by the backticks won't contain any termcap escape characters or
alike.

On 1/11/07, Jerry Yu <user-764c1f364fe0@xymon.invalid> wrote:
For wildcard, you want '.*' to represent any character instead of '*'
alone.  I have a handful of this kind of FILE checks.

On 1/11/07, Thomas <user-97316fb2dd2a@xymon.invalid> wrote:
hi all,

Trying to get file monitoring to work. Works find with fixed filenames
but I need to match a pattern in a directory and find the oldest file.
If more than say 7200 sec old in mtime then generate an alert.

in client-local.cfg I have

file:`ls -t /ftp/input/* | tail -1`

which produces the oldest file name on the web page.

I have the following in hobbit-clients.cfg

   FILE %/ftp/input/*.gz RED mtime<7200

but I get no alarms.

Any ideas ?