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> On Feb 19, 2014, at 11:59 AM, "dan (ddp)" <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 11:11 AM, Darin Perusich <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I would think that as long as the code is POSIX compliant it would
>> build on any system following that standard, which is nearly all
>> modern UNIX system.
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> 
> I haven't tested our code for posix compliance, but I do know niche
> systems like hpux, solaris, and aix have been issues over the years.
> Dropping official support for those systems frees up resources, and
> keeps us from having to wonder if every change we make is going to
> break something on a system barely anyone uses (since we don't have
> test systems available).
> We probably wouldn't purposefully break OSSEC on those systems, but
> officially supporting them isn't really feasible at this point in
> time.

I think the agent should be supported.  We just have to be careful and get 
accounts setup on http://www.polarhome.com to test agents from time to time 


> 
>> Later,
>> Darin
>> 
>> 
>>> On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 11:03 AM, Jeremy Rossi <[email protected]> 
>>> wrote:
>>> Making sure that all code in OSSEC compiles and runs on all Unixes is
>>> hard, and limiting.  I would like to support the Manager only on Modern
>>> Unixes:
>>> 
>>> - Recent versions of BSD's
>>> - Recent versions of Darwin
>>> - Recent versions of Linux
>>> 
>>> This proposal is only for the manager.  The agent should run on anything
>>> that we can get it to compile on.
>>> 
>>> I would like to make this change so that we are able to bring in more
>>> libraries, tools, and tricks from Modern Unixes to the OSSEC manager.
>>> 
>>> I just want to start the conversation on the Mailing list before I start
>>> writing anything up and get peoples feedback.
>>> 
>>> Thank you,
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
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