TM B IIIGGFFI XX® ® Red Hat & SUSE Linux Inspector Library A Guide to the BigFix® Red Hat & SUSE Linux Inspectors BigFix, Inc. Emeryville, CA Last Modified: 8/27/2008 Compatible with BES 7.1 Linux Inspector Library Page i © 1998–2008 BigFix, Inc. All rights reserved. ® ® BigFix , Fixlet and "Fix it before it fails"® are registered trademarks of BigFix, Inc. iprevention, Powered by BigFix, Relevance Engine, and related BigFix logos are trademarks of BigFix, Inc. All other product names, trade names, trademarks, and logos used in this documentation are the property of their respective owners. BigFix’s use of any other company’s trademarks, trade names, product names and logos or images of the same does not necessarily constitute: (1) an endorsement by such company of BigFix and its products, and (2) an endorsement of the company or its products by BigFix. 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Linux Inspector Library Page ii Contents PREFACE ____________________________________________________________ 1 AUDIENCE ............................................................................................................................. 1 ORGANIZATION OF THIS MANUAL ............................................................................................. 1 CONVENTIONS USED IN THIS MANUAL ..................................................................................... 3 EXAMPLES ............................................................................................................................ 3 VERSIONS ............................................................................................................................. 4 INTRODUCTION _______________________________________________________ 5 PRIMITIVE OBJECTS ___________________________________________________ 6 BOOLEAN .............................................................................................................................. 6 INTEGER ............................................................................................................................... 8 INTEGER RANGE .................................................................................................................. 13 INTEGER WITH MULTIPLICITY ................................................................................................ 13 INTEGER SET ....................................................................................................................... 14 STRING ............................................................................................................................... 16 STRING POSITION ................................................................................................................ 36 SUBSTRING ......................................................................................................................... 38 STRING WITH MULTIPLICITY .................................................................................................. 40 STRING SET ........................................................................................................................ 41 ROPE .................................................................................................................................. 43 BIT SET ............................................................................................................................... 44 REGULAR EXPRESSION ........................................................................................................ 46 REGULAR EXPRESSION MATCH ............................................................................................ 47 UNDEFINED ......................................................................................................................... 48 HERTZ ................................................................................................................................ 49 HERTZ WITH MULTIPLICITY ................................................................................................... 51 TIME ................................................................................................................................... 52 TIME WITH MULTIPLICITY ...................................................................................................... 56 TIME OF DAY ....................................................................................................................... 56 TIME OF DAY WITH MULTIPLICITY .......................................................................................... 58 TIME ZONE .......................................................................................................................... 59 TIME ZONE WITH MULTIPLICITY ............................................................................................. 60 TIME OF DAY WITH TIME ZONE ............................................................................................. 61 TIME OF DAY WITH TIME ZONE WITH MULTIPLICITY ................................................................ 63 TIME RANGE ........................................................................................................................ 64 TIME RANGE WITH MULTIPLICITY .......................................................................................... 66 TIME INTERVAL .................................................................................................................... 67 TIME INTERVAL WITH MULTIPLICITY ....................................................................................... 70 DATE .................................................................................................................................. 70 DATE WITH MULTIPLICITY ..................................................................................................... 73 DAY OF WEEK ..................................................................................................................... 74 DAY OF WEEK WITH MULTIPLICITY ........................................................................................ 76 DAY OF MONTH ................................................................................................................... 76 DAY OF MONTH WITH MULTIPLICITY ...................................................................................... 78 DAY OF YEAR ...................................................................................................................... 79 DAY OF YEAR WITH MULTIPLICITY ......................................................................................... 82 MONTH ............................................................................................................................... 82 MONTH WITH MULTIPLICITY .................................................................................................. 85 MONTH AND YEAR ............................................................................................................... 86 MONTH AND YEAR WITH MULTIPLICITY .................................................................................. 90 © 2008 by BigFix, Inc. Linux Inspector Library Page iii NUMBER OF MONTHS ........................................................................................................... 90 NUMBER OF MONTHS WITH MULTIPLICITY ............................................................................. 92 YEAR .................................................................................................................................. 92 YEAR WITH MULTIPLICITY ..................................................................................................... 94 WORLD OBJECTS ____________________________________________________ 95 WORLD ............................................................................................................................... 95 FILESYSTEM OBJECTS ______________________________________________ 114 FILESYSTEM ...................................................................................................................... 114 FILESYSTEM OBJECT ......................................................................................................... 116 FILE .................................................................................................................................. 119 APPLICATION ..................................................................................................................... 122 FOLDER ...........................................................................................................................