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**Caution-External**: RE: [hobbit] monitoring files and messages-newbie

list Josh Luthman
Wed, 14 Nov 2007 01:43:24 -0500
Message-Id: <user-2c28421a7ed9@xymon.invalid>

Sorry, extremely tired tonight...

ls -ld (you will need the d to make it ls -l /var itself and not list the
contents of it)

On 11/14/07, Perumal, Santoshbabu <user-bc15f54a09ea@xymon.invalid> wrote:
 *bash-2.03$ ls -l /var
*total 90
drwxr-xr-x   2 root     root         512 Jul  6  2005 TT_DB
drwxrwxr-x   9 root     sys          512 Nov 11 03:10 adm
drwxr-xr-x   8 root     bin          512 Jul  6  2005 apache
drwxr-xr-x   2 root     sys          512 Jul  6  2005 audit
drwxr-xr-x   3 root     root         512 Jul  6  2005 crash
drwxr-xr-x   2 root     sys          512 Aug 13  2006 cron
drwxr-xr-x   5 root     sys          512 Jul  6  2005 dmi
drwxrwxr-x   6 root     root         512 Feb  4  2007 dt
drwxr-xr-x   2 root     sys          512 Jul  6  2005 inet
drwxr-xr-x   3 root     bin          512 Nov 12 10:35 ld
drwxr-xr-x   2 root     sys          512 Jul  6  2005 ldap
drwxr-xr-x   2 root     sys          512 Nov 11 03:10 log
drwx------   2 root     root        8192 Jul  6  2005 lost+found
drwxrwxr-x   3 lp       lp           512 Jul  6  2005 lp
drwxrwxrwt   3 root     mail         512 Nov 13 21:09 mail
drwxr-xr-x   2 root     bin          512 Jul  6  2005 news
drwxr-xr-x   2 root     bin          512 Jul  6  2005 nfs
drwxr-xr-x   2 root     sys          512 Jul  6  2005 nis
drwxr-xr-x   3 root     sys          512 Jul  6  2005 ntp
drwxr-xr-x   3 root     sys          512 Jul  8  2005 opt
drwxrwxrwt   3 root     bin          512 Oct 27  2005 preserve
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     other          8 Jul  8  2005 rap -> /nsr/rap
drwxr-xr-x   4 root     sys          585 May 24 13:18 run
drwxr-xr-x  11 root     sys          512 Feb  4  2007 sadm
drwxr-xr-x   3 root     bin          512 Jul  6  2005 saf
drwxr-xr-x   3 root     sys          512 Feb  4  2007 snmp
drwxr-xr-x  10 root     bin          512 Jul  6  2005 spool
drwxr-xr-x   4 daemon   daemon       512 Jul  6  2005 statmon
drwxrwxrwt   4 root     sys         1024 Nov 13 21:08 tmp
drwxr-xr-x   7 uucp     uucp         512 Jul  6  2005 uucp
drwxr-xr-x   3 root     bin          512 Jul  6  2005 yp
*bash-2.03$ ls -l /var/log/
*total 544
-rw-------   1 root     sys            0 Jul  6  2005 authlog
-rw-r--r--   1 root     other        604 Nov 11  2005 sysidconfig.log
-rwxrwxrwx   1 root     other      14500 Nov 13 21:09 syslog
-rw-r--r--   1 root     other      32465 Nov 10 21:09 syslog.0
-rw-r--r--   1 root     other      32259 Nov  3 21:09 syslog.1
-rw-r--r--   1 root     other      32443 Oct 27 21:08 syslog.2
-rw-r--r--   1 root     other      33041 Oct 20 21:08 syslog.3
-rw-r--r--   1 root     other      32161 Oct 13 21:11 syslog.4
-rw-r--r--   1 root     other      31945 Oct  6 21:07 syslog.5
-rw-r--r--   1 root     other      31492 Sep 29 21:08 syslog.6
-rw-r--r--   1 root     other      32281 Sep 22 21:08 syslog.7
*bash-2.03$ ls -l /var/log/syslog.7*
-rw-r--r--   1 root     other      32281 Sep 22 21:08 /var/log/syslog.7
*ls -ld /var*
drwxr-xr-x  32 root     sys          512 Jul  8  2005 /var
all files are owned by root but others have read permission on all the
files.

Thanks
  santhosh.p

*From:* Josh Luthman [mailto:user-4c45a83f15cb@xymon.invalid]
*Sent:* Wednesday, November 14, 2007 1:21 AM
*To:* user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
*Subject:* Re: [hobbit] RE: **Caution-External**: RE: [hobbit] monitoring
files and messages-newbie

As an alternative to namei you can do...

ls -l /var
ls -l /var/log
ls -l /var/log/syslog7

and then give me the print outs.  This will confirm the theory to see if
your hobbit can read the /var/log/syslog7 file or not.

On 11/14/07, Perumal, Santoshbabu <user-bc15f54a09ea@xymon.invalid> wrote:
 hi,
   i can get output when i execute namei -m command on linux.out client
machine is solaris.when i ecexute your command on client i am getting
command not found error.do we need to have this commad on clientside to
view file contents using hobbit?

Thanks in advance

Thanks
   santhosh.p

*From:* Perumal, Santoshbabu
*Sent:* Wednesday, November 14, 2007 1:03 AM
*To:* user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
*Subject:* **Caution-External**: RE: [hobbit] monitoring files and
messages-newbie


 namei -m /var/log/syslog7
bash: namei: command not found

  i bit confused .is there any command called namei.when i excute i got
the above commad not found result.

Thanks
  santhosh.p

*From:* Josh Luthman [mailto:user-4c45a83f15cb@xymon.invalid]
*Sent:* Wednesday, November 14, 2007 12:55 AM
*To:* user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
*Subject:* Re: [hobbit] monitoring files and messages-newbie

Can you please do an namei -m /var/log/syslog7 and then give us the
print out?

On 11/14/07, Perumal, Santoshbabu < user-bc15f54a09ea@xymon.invalid>
wrote:
 thanks for your replies

    i can see the  file on the gui right now.but cann not view the
contents of the file.if i click it is saying that unknown
filetype(opens small window).can anyone help me on this

   my hobbit-client.cfg file
       HOST=tower
        DISK / 93 98
        PROC cron 1 -1 yellow
        PROC Xvnc 1 120 yellow
        PROC defunct  0 0  red
        LOG /var/adm/messages  WARNING COLOR=yellow
        LOG /var/log/syslog   WARNING COLOR=yellow
        DIR %^/var/log TRACK
        FILE /bin/su md5=c80fc747e24fa8bfa099cbef0bfb926f
        FILE %^/var/log/syslog.* TRACK=maillog

my client-local.cfg file

    [tower]
   file:/bin/su:md5
   file:`ls -t -1 /var/log/syslog.*|head -1`

In the gui i can see /var/log/syslog7 if i click on the file getting
unknown filetype error.cannot able to view the file.please advise if
my entries wrong

Thanks
   santhosh.p


*From:* Josh Luthman [mailto:user-4c45a83f15cb@xymon.invalid]
*Sent:* Tuesday, November 13, 2007 10:12 PM
*To:* user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
*Subject:* Re: [hobbit] monitoring files and messages

I'm still amazed at how little this command hasn't gotten around - it
is a real beautiful tool!

Try doing a namei -m /var/adm/sa/sar12 and see if the hobbit user has
the necessary access to read the file (and can execute directories up to
it!)

On 11/13/07, Paul Ehrenreich <user-98a0adc73677@xymon.invalid> wrote:
does the hobbit user have access to the logs and the files?

On Nov 13, 2007 4:53 PM, Steve Holmes <user-ec1bf77b1b44@xymon.invalid> wrote:
Have you also added the required lines to client-local.cfg?
Steve.


On Nov 13, 2007 3:48 PM, Perumal, Santoshbabu
<user-bc15f54a09ea@xymon.invalid > wrote:

Hi,
       can anyone help me to monitor files and procs

  in the Hobbit-client.cfg file i have mentioned the following
entries

  HOST=tower
  FILE  /var/adm/sa/sar12
  LOG /var/log/syslog   WARNING COLOR=yellow


but i could not able to see anything on the gui.i can see white
icon if i
click on this i see no files checked status and if i click msg
icon i cann
see only /var/adm/messages i coild not see /var/log/sulog.how can
i resolve
this problem.please help me on this

Thanks in advance

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