NOTIFIER.CONFIG(4)NOTIFIER.CONFIG(4)NAMEnotifier.config - sysmon configuration file
DESCRIPTION
The /usr/lib/sysmon/notifier.config file is used to configure the Desktop
System Monitor (sysmon.) Each line indicates a message that the System
Monitor will watch for. Typically when a message is found a notifier is
created on the Desktop to alert the user and offer customized help for
that message.
There are eight fields in the configuration file each separated by a
single space. A # at the start of a line is a comment.
enable This field can be either ON or OFF. OFF means the System
Monitor will ignore this message.
message This field is a regular expression (see regex(3G)) enclosed in
double quotes. This denotes the message that the System
Monitor will watch for.
priority This field indicates the priority that the message should have.
The field should be one of (1-critical, 2-error, 4-warning, 6-
info.) This priority has nothing to do with the priority at
which the message was originally created with using syslog(3C).
source This field indicates the message source that the message (see
above) must come from. The message source is usually the name
of the program that is logging the message or "unix" for the
Irix kernel. Both the source and the message must match before
the message is considered a match. This field does not accept
a regular expression. It is not enclosed with double quotes.
exec Indicates the script to run when this message is seen.
Currently this is always $DIALOG($LOCALHOST) which means run
the script defined by the variable $DIALOG and pass it the
variable $LOCALHOST as it's first argument. These variables
are defined in the /usr/lib/sysmon/notifier.define file. Only
one argument to the script is currently allowed.
who Used to indicate what user the script should run as. In the
past the script would be set that user id. Now the only valid
name is WMOWNER (which means whatever user is currently running
the Desktop.)
timeout Duplicate messages that arrive in less than this much time are
discarded. This prevents a flood of messages. The string
"MIN" is always appended to indicate minutes.
helpcard When an error dialog is raised on the Desktop this help card
can be shown to the user for additional assistance if the user
clicks on the "help" button. The format of this field is
Book:Key where Book is the name of the help book and Key is the
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card for sgihelp(1) to display.
NOTE
This file should not be considered user editable. Syntax errors are not
handled gracefully. See the release notes for sysmon for other issues.
FILES
/usr/lib/sysmon/notifier.config
/usr/lib/sysmon/notifier.define
/usr/lib/sysmon/dialog.sh
SEE ALSOsyslog(3C), regex(3G), sysmonpp(1M), sysmonpp(1M), sgihelp(1),
imdmonitor(1M)
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