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files test fails to work

list David Gore
Thu, 18 May 2006 19:11:24 +0000
Message-Id: <user-db712c73a91d@xymon.invalid>


David Gore wrote:
client-local.cfg:

       file:/export/home/nmsbb/client/tmp/TEST

hobbit-clients.cfg:

       FILE %.*SNMP_COMMUNITY.public.nxg21:TEST.* yellow mtime>100

type:100000 (file, symlink -> /export/home/netx/Archive/nxg21/nxg21:TEST/mci-nornxdb06.SNMP_COMMUNITY.public.nxg21:TEST.2006May16.Z) 
mode:600 (-rw-------)
linkcount:1
owner:108 (netx)
group:10 (staff)
size:1
clock:1147953285 (2006/05/18-11:54:45)
atime:1147937673 (2006/05/18-07:34:33)
ctime:1147903202 (2006/05/17-22:00:02)
mtime:1147745875 (2006/05/16-02:17:55)

Well, after thinking about this and watching the code, I thought, oh clearly my entry is wrong:

hobbit-clients.cfg: FILE %.*SNMP_COMMUNITY.public.nxg21:TEST.* yellow mtime>100

At first  I thought,  oh I forgot to encase the regex in double quotes, but then I could see this NOT being matched as I traced the code and thought clearly it should be:

hobbit-clients.cfg: FILE /export/home/nmsbb/client/tmp/TEST

But of course that is the link and not the actual file.  The file is:

/export/home/netx/Archive/nxg21/nxg21:TEST/mci-nornxdb06.SNMP_COMMUNITY.public.nxg21:TEST.2006May16.Z

This output is around line 1931 (off because of debugging lines).  I no longer have the energy to trace this further, but since it appears none of our mtime checks work, I can only guess because these tests fail because rwalk->rule.fcheck.minmtimedif = 0.  I am not sure any of the max or min mtime tests work, but I give up, for all I know it could be my fault.  I have certainly stared out it long enough to get  confused.

2006-05-18 18:52:46 Checking mtime MIN for file: /export/home/nmsbb/client/tmp/TEST
2006-05-18 18:52:46 FAILED mtime MIN for file: /export/home/nmsbb/client/tmp/TEST
2006-05-18 18:52:46     mtimedif [232491] < rwalk->rule.fcheck.minmtimedif [0]
2006-05-18 18:52:46 FAILED mtime MAX for file: /export/home/nmsbb/client/tmp/TEST

Do the mtime tests work for the target files of links?  Not that we can get it to work for a simple file.

Server is Fedora Core 5 running the latest snapshot.
nmsbb@:/export/home/nmsbb> ls -al /export/home/nmsbb/client/tmp/TEST
lrwxrwxrwx   1 nmsbb    nms          101 May 18 11:59 /export/home/nmsbb/client/tmp/TEST -> /export/home/netx/Archive/nxg21/nxg21:TEST/mci-nornxdb06.SNMP_COMMUNITY.public.nxg21:TEST.2006May16.Z 

nmsbb@:/export/home/nmsbb> ls -al /export/home/netx/Archive/nxg21/nxg21:TEST/mci-nornxdb06.SNMP_COMMUNITY.public.nxg21:TEST.2006May16.Z 
-rw-------   1 netx     staff       1866 May 16 02:17 /export/home/netx/Archive/nxg21/nxg21:TEST/mci-nornxdb06.SNMP_COMMUNITY.public.nxg21:TEST.2006May16.Z 

nmsbb@:/export/home/nmsbb/client/tmp> cat logfetch.ndcnxg21.cfg
file:/export/home/nmsbb/client/tmp/TEST
log:/export/home/netx/Log/LOG.database:10240

nmsbb@:/export/home/nmsbb/client/tmp> cat logfetch.ndcnxg21.status
/export/home/netx/Log/LOG.database:185760:185760:185760:185760:185760:185760:185760 


This fails to fire an alarm whether the mtime>100 or mtime<100.  I am trying to get it to fire if a file has not updated within the last 100 seconds.  I have been faithfully compiling client and server installs daily from the snapshots, but no luck yet.

This also fails to work:

client-local.cfg:

       file:/home/nmsmgr/GNUstep/.GNUstepDefaults

hobbit-clients.cfg:

       FILE /home/nmsmgr/GNUstep/.GNUstepDefaults yellow size<1

type:100000 (file)
mode:600 (-rw-------)
linkcount:1
owner:3200 (nmsmgr)
group:1026 (nmsadmin)
size:0
clock:1147958071 (2006/05/18-13:14:31)
atime:1147958065 (2006/05/18-13:14:25)
ctime:1147958065 (2006/05/18-13:14:25)
mtime:1146073519 (2006/04/26-17:45:19)


nmsbb at pdcalm105:/home/nmsbb> ls -al /home/nmsmgr/GNUstep/.GNUstepDefaults
-rw-------   1 nmsmgr   nmsadmin     125 Apr 26 17:45 /home/nmsmgr/GNUstep/.GNUstepDefaults

'size' is not 0 as reported but 125 bytes, if it was 0 then it should fire an alarm, which it doesn't:


Since I am not sure how to debug this I am going to resort to the desperate action of putting debug statements in the source code, and hoping I am looking at the correct source file which I think is client_config.c.

~David