On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 12:20 PM, Jeremy Rossi <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Sent from my iPhone > >> 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. >>> -- >> >> 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 >
I agree, but the agent is much less complex than the server. Plus, users of these niche systems would step up and help out. > >> >>> 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, >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> >>>> --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>> Groups "ossec-list" group. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>>> email to [email protected]. >>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >>> >>> -- >>> >>> --- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "ossec-list" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>> email to [email protected]. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> >> -- >> >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "ossec-list" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "ossec-list" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ossec-list" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
