alert questions. - SOLVED

It was my macro definitions that were messing the alerts configuration 
up and the dumpconfig made me realise this. Thanks,

Henrik Stoerner wrote:

On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 09:12:22AM +0100, Thomas wrote:
  

What are the different color codes and letters i.e. (R,S) for alerts on
the info page ?
    

The "(R)" for a recipient means that he also gets the "Recovered"
notices.

The "(S)" means this recipient is a "Stop" recipient, i.e. you have
used the STOP keyword for this recipient. So if an alert is sent to
this recipient, none of the recipient below will get one.

  

Why will my normal macro config not work ie $NEWHOSTS=host1,host2 but
$NEWHOSTS=%(host1|host2) works ?
    

Both should work. Could you try each of the configs and run 
"bbcmd hobbitd_alert --dump-config" ? That will show how your
macros are expanded.