Hi,
what a start in the new week. *grmbl*
On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 08:43:52AM +0100, pkc_mls wrote:
I tried to get hobbit compiling and running on Debian
GNU/kFreeBSD[1]. Getting it to compile was quite easy, getting it run,
too, but getting it work isn't[2].
[1] http://www.debian.org/ports/kfreebsd-gnu/
[2] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=458417
Getting the client run needed some more files to exist. Now I've got
an ugly but running client sending data to my hobbit
server. Unfortunately the server drops it with the message
2008-01-25 22:41:09 No client backend for OS 'gnu/kfreebsd' sent by [...]
this is because there is no script hobbitclient-gnu/kfreebsd.sh in
the ~hobbit/client/bin directory.
No this is wrong. I already tested it and have a script at appropriate
location in the ~hobbit/client/bin directory and it still happens,
because the real reason is -- as I already wrote (see below) -- this
snippet of C code inside hobbitd/hobbitd_client.c:
1757 os = get_ostype(clientos);
[...]
1763 switch (os) {
1764 case OS_FREEBSD:
1765 handle_freebsd_client(hostname, clientclass, os, hinfo, sender, timestamp, restofmsg);
1766 break;
1767
[...]
1812 case OS_UNKNOWN:
1813 errprintf("No client backend for OS '%s' sent by %s\n", clientos, sender);
1814 break;
1815 }
as written in the hobbitclient.sh script, you can define you own
bbosscript with the $BBOSSCRIPT.
I know. I thought I wrote that:
So all my workarounds are quite ugly since they all involve the
creation of directories to allow filenames like
hobbitclient-gnu/kfreebsd.sh
Not nice, but works.
/if test "$BBOSSCRIPT" = ""; then
BBOSSCRIPT="hobbitclient-`uname -s | tr '[A-Z]' '[a-z]'`.sh"
fi
/
the difficulty is that the uname -o output contains a / character.
Yeah, indeed. Did you read the mail you're replying too?
There is a slash in the OS name.
I already created a custom script for a freebsd based distro, and simply
creating the client script was enough.
With 4.2.0, FreeBSD seems already supported, at least the scripts
exist. I found them when debugging why GNU/kFreeBSD doesn't work.
hope this'll help.
Not really much (except maybe the part where one of the appropriate tr
is and that uname -s instead of uname -o is used) since I already have
my client running on GNU/kFreeBSD, but the server's C code also needs
patching:
In noticed that the reason for this is an OS switch() in
hobbitd/hobbitd_client.c line 1763 ff.
... and the core of my mail is to offer Henrik (and fellow developers)
(hopefully) everything they need for upstream support, ask them for
their opinion on how the best way to handle the "/" issue and finally
ask for the official upstream inclusion of the GNU/kFreeBSD support:
Hernik: How do you think that problem is solved best from your view
as hobbit developer?
Kind regards, Axel Beckert
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