Log monitoring 🔗 link

-----Original Message-----
From: Galen Johnson [mailto:user-87f955643e3d@xymon.invalid] 
Sent: Friday, April 20, 2007 9:28 PM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: [hobbit] Log monitoring

Hey,

I'm having a minor issue with the logging functionality of hobbit.  I have a log file that is rolled daily and, as such, has a date embedded.  I've tried adding the entry like:

log:/path/to/file_`date +%Y.%m.%d`.log:10240

I got the impression from the docs and Henrik's site that this should be possible.  What am I missing?

=G=

Galen Johnson wrote:

Hey,

I'm having a minor issue with the logging functionality of hobbit.  I have a log file that is rolled daily and, as such, has a date embedded.  I've tried adding the entry like:

log:/path/to/file_`date +%Y.%m.%d`.log:10240

I got the impression from the docs and Henrik's site that this should be possible.  What am I missing?
  

-----Original Message-----
From: Alan Sparks [mailto:user-8f2174fd8b66@xymon.invalid] 
Sent: Saturday, April 21, 2007 10:57 AM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: Re: [hobbit] Log monitoring

Galen Johnson wrote:

Hey,

I'm having a minor issue with the logging functionality of hobbit.  I have a log file that is rolled daily and, as such, has a date embedded.  I've tried adding the entry like:

log:/path/to/file_`date +%Y.%m.%d`.log:10240

I got the impression from the docs and Henrik's site that this should be possible.  What am I missing?
  

You can... but I think you can only do one or the other, not mix it.  A literal, or the whole thing a command in backquotes.
Perhaps if you try something like:
log:`date +'/path/to/file_%Y.%m.%d.log'`:10240

The file must be readable by the Hobbit user for monitoring to work, of course.
-Alan

I do something like the following for some servers, and it works, maybe you can adapt the concept to your needs:
log:`find /path/to/location -maxdepth 1 -name '

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Alan Sparks, UNIX/Linux Systems Integration and Administration <user-8f2174fd8b66@xymon.invalid>

On Sat, Apr 21, 2007 at 11:41:11AM -0400, Galen Johnson wrote:

You rock, dude...that did it.  Now I just need to figure out why hobbit can't see the other logs.  It's a permissions thing I'm sure but I've made the hobbit user a member of the group that has access yet it seems like the secondary group membership is not being honored.

Henrik Stoerner wrote:

On Sat, Apr 21, 2007 at 11:41:11AM -0400, Galen Johnson wrote:
  

You rock, dude...that did it.  Now I just need to figure out why hobbit can't see the other logs.  It's a permissions thing I'm sure but I've made the hobbit user a member of the group that has access yet it seems like the secondary group membership is not being honored.
    

Make sure you restart the Hobbit client after changing group
memberships - changing it doesn't affect any running processes.


Regards,
Henrik
  

Galen Johnson wrote:

Henrik Stoerner wrote:

On Sat, Apr 21, 2007 at 11:41:11AM -0400, Galen Johnson wrote:
 

You rock, dude...that did it.  Now I just need to figure out why hobbit can't see the other logs.  It's a permissions thing I'm sure but I've made the hobbit user a member of the group that has access yet it seems like the secondary group membership is not being honored.
    

Make sure you restart the Hobbit client after changing group
memberships - changing it doesn't affect any running processes.


Regards,
Henrik
  

Yep, did that (a couple of times)...I wish I had this setup on a different OS...currently only on Solaris 10.  Never seen this before 9but then again solaris 10 isn't exactly like the older ones).  I wonder if it's the service manifest file I worked on for it...I may need to read up on that a bit more...

=G=

Galen Johnson wrote:

Galen Johnson wrote:

Henrik Stoerner wrote:

On Sat, Apr 21, 2007 at 11:41:11AM -0400, Galen Johnson wrote:
 

You rock, dude...that did it.  Now I just need to figure out why hobbit can't see the other logs.  It's a permissions thing I'm sure but I've made the hobbit user a member of the group that has access yet it seems like the secondary group membership is not being honored.
    

Make sure you restart the Hobbit client after changing group
memberships - changing it doesn't affect any running processes.


Regards,
Henrik
  

Yep, did that (a couple of times)...I wish I had this setup on a different OS...currently only on Solaris 10.  Never seen this before 9but then again solaris 10 isn't exactly like the older ones).  I wonder if it's the service manifest file I worked on for it...I may need to read up on that a bit more...

=G=

Ok...I've just confirmed this hypothesis.  I disabled the service and started hobbit manually (don't know why  I didn't think of it sooner) and it's working as expected...guess I'll have to research the service manifest to figure out what I need to know to make it work with it.

=G=