That fixes it!
Tom
-----Original Message-----
From: Henrik Stoerner [mailto:user-ce4a2c883f75@xymon.invalid]
Sent: Monday, May 02, 2005 3:53 PM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: Re: [hobbit] PCRE regular expressions (help?)
On Mon, May 02, 2005 at 12:47:15PM -0500, Kauffman, Tom wrote:
I thought I knew what I was doing, but apparently not:
PCRE compile of NORRDDISKS='^/oracle/PRD/sapdata.*' failed
I'm trying to use the patch Henrik so kindly provided earlier.
Hmm - it's not my lucky day for doing patches, sorry.
There's a clear cut'n'paste bug in the patch I sent out:
Line 39 of hobbitd/larrd/do_disk.c reads:
if (!inclpattern) errprintf("PCRE compile of NORRDDISKS ....
It was meant to test the *exclude* pattern there, so it should be
if (!exclpattern) errprintf("PCRE compile of NORRDDISKS ....
This means you'll get that error-message no matter what you put into
the NORRDDISKS variable.
And what I really want to suppress (shell syntax) is:
/oracle/*/sapdata*
/oracle/*/data?
/oracle/*/mirr*
/oracle/*/orig*
Here's the generic I tried:
PCRE compile of
NORRDDISKS='^/oracle/.../sapdata.*|^/oracle/.../mirr.*|^/oracle/.../orig
.*|^/oracle/.../data.*' failed
I tested it with this one:
NORRDDISKS="^/oracle/[a-z,0-9]+/sapdata.*|^/oracle/[a-z,0-9]+/mirr.*|^/o
racle/[a-z,0-9]+/orig.*|^/oracle/[a-z,0-9]+/data.*"
Feeding it some hand-crafted disk status messages it seems to work OK.
Note that hobbitserver.cfg is processed by a C program, not a shell
tool. So you shouldn't need to escape any of the special characters.
Henrik