That would do exactly what I want but it seems fileexists() wants to see only a
fully qualified file name - regex’s don’t work. I need to use a regex because
the only information I have is that a file in the directory will match \w.*
On Aug 26, 2012, at 8:36 AM, Aleksey Tsalolikhin wrote:
> Classes: "somefilesthere"
> Expression => fileexists(...);
>
> Reports:
> Somefilesthere::
> "Report text";
>
> How's that?
> On Aug 25, 2012 10:33 PM, "Aleksey Tsalolikhin" <atsaloli.t...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> Hi Abid. Check out the fileexists() function. You can use it to set a class
> which you can link to a reports promise.
>
> Yours,
> Aleksey
>
> On Aug 25, 2012 9:03 AM, "Abid Khwaja" <a...@tyrann.net> wrote:
> I’m running community 3.2.3.
>
> My goal is to notify a group of non-technical users whenever there are files
> in a particular directory - the normal state is that the directory should be
> empty. I’m currently doing this via the following:
>
> bundle agent main
> {
> files:
> “/apps/myApp_files/errors/time/.*"
> file_select => plain,
> delete => tidy,
> action => warn_only;
> }
>
> I’m using “delete => tidy” only because I need something to attach the
> “action” attribute to - I never actually want to ever delete or touch any of
> the files in the directory. Is this the smartest way to achieve what I want?
>
> Also, while the above works, it’s not optimal because you get a lot of text
> in the warn message that non-technical users don’t understand. A better way
> would be to define a class if any files are found in the directory and use
> that class in a reports section to send out a more easier to understand
> message. How would I define such a class?
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