Re: [hobbit] Hobbit client for Windows

[Jeff Newman <jeffnewman75 (at) gmail.com>]

Please excuse my ignorance as Im new to hobbit/BB, but whats wrong
with the Big Brother client? I run a hobbit server, downloaded the windows
client
off of the big brother site, installed it, and it reports stuff to hobbit
just fine.

-Jeff


On 11/28/05, Henrik Stoerner <henrik (at) hswn.dk> wrote:
>
> (Note: I changed the subject)
>
> Hi Vernon,
>
> On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 03:01:41PM +0800, Vernon Everett wrote:
>
> > Hobbit client runs on Windoze. (Disclaimer applies - see below)
> > :-)
> >
> > After a little bit of playing around, I managed to compile the client in
> > Windows, and it works.
>
> [snip story of porting the client to Windows with Cygwin]
>
> > It's far from perfect but I think it's a good starting point, and there
> > will hopefully be no need for multiple code versions for different
> > platforms.
>
> It's a neat hack, and it does give you the basic functionality. But:
> There are some severe limitations to this approach. Cygwin's "ps" output
> for instance only includes the processes that have been started from a
> Cygwin prompt - not the system processes you'd probably want to check.
> And monitoring Windows services is not possible, I believe.
>
> > Right now it's doing its thing, and sending data back to the server (I
> > think) but the server is not displaying any results other than conn.
> > How can I check what's being received by the server, and what's being
> > done with it?
>
> It probably isn't doing anything with the data. The client data is
> handled by the hobbitd_client module, which needs to learn how to
> interpret data from this unknown OS called "windows". If you look at
> the hobbitd/client/ directory in the Hobbit sources, you'll see there
> are a bunch of files - one per OS - with code to handle the particular
> report sent by each OS. Something must be added to deal with the
> report from your Windows client.
>
>
> Regards,
> Henrik
>
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