Re: [hobbit] Builds of Hobbit client for ancient operating systems?

["Ralph Mitchell" <ralphmitchell (at) gmail.com>]

On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 2:38 PM, Krash, Paul <pkrash (at) exegy.com> wrote:

>   I would suggest a VMWare server (if the OS supports it)
>
> The Big Brother client works on older systems, if the hobbit binary
> doesn't.
>
>

Out-of-the-box, the Big Brother client still requires compilation, certainly
for the bb program that delivers the reports.  On the other hand, there's a
perl program call bb.pl that can be used in its place.

And now that I think about it, a couple of months back I set up a copy of
hobbit in a Solaris 10 x86 VMWare environment, then copied the client
install directory over to a couple of Solaris 8 Sparc systems.  Obviously
the binaries wouldn't work, but the script which gathers cpu, disk & memory
stats seems to work OK.  I'm even kicking the script off via ssh, as I
really couldn't install anything useful on the target machines...

I'll send a copy off-list - if it doesn't work maybe we can fix it before
inflicting it on the world...

Ralph Mitchell