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> On Feb 19, 2014, at 12:23 PM, "dan (ddp)" <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 12:20 PM, Jeremy Rossi <[email protected]> 
>> wrote:
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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
> 
> I agree, but the agent is much less complex than the server. Plus,
> users of these niche systems would step up and help out.
> 


Agreed 

>> 
>>> 
>>>> 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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