file noexists doesn't work 🔗 link

Hey,

Having a hell of a time with this.  I need to alert when a file exists.
According to the manpage I should be able to use the "noexist" test.
However, this doesn't appear to work.  I've tried several combinations and
cases,  Has anyone actually gotten this to work?

In my client_local.cfg. I have a stanza similar to:

[odamid00-prod-us]
file:`ls /pbr/biconfig/940/Lev1/Web/Logs/SASServer*/heaps/*.hprof`

and in analysis,cfig I have:

HOST=%(odamid0).*
       FILE %/pbr/biconfig/940/Lev1/Web/Logs/SASServer*/heaps/*.hprof red
noexist

I've tried using upper case and reversing the order but I cannot get it to
turn red when the file exists.  It does, however, give me a green dot and
show that it sees the file so I'm confident it's at least partly working.
NB: I'm using the latest Terabithia RPM.

=G=

PS: the man page and the analysis.cfg file disagree on the order of [color]
and [things to check] from other experience, the man page is what is
correct.  I think someone may have previously pointed this out.

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Resending to include the list.

On 03.10.2018 09:41, Torsten Richter wrote:

Hi Galen,

the comments in analysis.cfg suggest to use upper case for noexist.
Did you try that as well?

Torsten

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On Tue, 2018-10-02 at 20:37 -0400, Galen Johnson wrote:

HOST=%(odamid0).*
       FILE %/pbr/biconfig/940/Lev1/Web/Logs/SASServer*/heaps/*.hprof red
noexist

It looks like you are using shell globbing here ('*') rather than a regex
pattern for any characters ('.*').


John.

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That did the trick.  I hadn't even considered that the different regex
blobbing would affect it.  You da man.

And for completeness since Torsten commented, it appears to be case
insensitive in that regard as I tried both upper and lower case.  To be
fair, the documentation is unclear on that point and if you look at the
code, it's comparing lowercase so I'm guessing there is a call somewhere
that lowcases the entry.

=G=

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