BB and 4.0.3 compatibility 🔗 link

Hi,
 Within the release notes of 4.0.3 it says:

Beginning with this release, Hobbit can no longer be used as
an add-on to Big Brother. Hobbit retains compatibility with
BB clients and extension scripts, but you can no longer run
eg. the Hobbit network test tool and have it report to a
Big Brother server.

and

* All remnants of Big Brother compatibility have been 
removed. If you want to stick with the old Big Brother
tool, use bbgen. This allowed for some much needed 
cleaning up of the bbgen code that loaded the status
data, especially for the handling of purple status logs.
Also, the sending of messages has dropped all support 
for the Big Brother method of sending "page" messages
when a status-message is sent with an alert-color, so
the BBPAGE and BBPAGERS settings are no longer used.

Does this means that the BBRELAY-option from a BB-server to a Hobbit-server 
on another host does not work anymore?
 Thanks,
 Peter

On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 10:41:39AM +0200, Peter Welter wrote:

You can still forward messages from a BB server to a Hobbit server,
since the protocol used to exchange messages hasn't changed.

I just no longer guarantee that you can run Hobbit tools on top of a 
Big Brother installation on the same server. In the old days, e.g.
the "bbgen" program (that generates the web pages) could load the status
of your monitor from the status logfiles maintained by the Big Brother
server - that is no longer possible.


Henrik