Would it be worthwhile to create a docker image of xymon? The server could run in docker. The client could not though. Too much information would not be visible to make it a viable solution.

Scot Kreienkamp

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> On Jan 18, 2026, at 4:58��PM, Roland Rosenfeld <roland@spinnaker.de> wrote:
>
> ��Hi Mark!
>
> On Sun, 18 Jan 2026, Mark Felder via Xymon wrote:
>
>>> It would be great to have a 4.3.31 without architectural changes
>>> but with the current painpoints fixed.
>
>> I agree. I think 4.3.31 as our test run should be a roll up of
>> patches collected by distros and other small patches that have been
>> floating around which don't risk changing behavior or build
>> dependencies. That would exclude the PCRE2 change for this release
>> as we don't know how this will affect non-Linux/BSD platforms. It
>> should be fine as PCRE2 has been around a long time, but nobody has
>> ever tried to build it on e.g., Solaris yet
>
> But not upgrading to PCRE2 but staying with the old library, which was
> last updated 2021-06-22 (8.45) and is now officially "no longer being
> actively maintained" (see https://www.pcre.org/) means, that RHEL 10
> and Debian 13 (trixie) are no longer supported, since these do no
> longer ship the old pcre library.
>
> BTW: pcre2 was first released in 2015, so I expect that every OS
> should be able to build/ship this in more than 10 years.
>
> I have to admit, that I didn't try this out on Solaris yet, but is
> there really anybody running a xymon server on Solaris nowadays? If
> you only need the client (with conftype "server"), no pcre is needed
> at all (only for the client with conftype "client"), so for most
> users, who only need a client on a "special" OS, this shouldn't be an
> issue.
>
> A short search showed me, that pcre2 seems to be available on Solaris
> 10 and 11: https://www.opencsw.org/package/pcre2/ (but I didn't try
> this out myself, since I'm very happy to have shut down all Solaris
> boxes last year and so I no longer have to pray, if one of them hicks
> up and nobody is there to fix it).
>
> Greetings
> Roland
>
> PS: Do you also see my mails on the ML "From: Roland Rosenfeld
>    <roland@spinnaker.de>"?
>    While I see most postings in the ML as "From: Some Name as xymon
>    <xymon@xymon.com>", I see myself (and some others) with their real
>    addresses (and get DMARC warnings, because the list breaks DKIM
>    (by adding a signature) and SPF (since the list server isn't
>    permitted for spinnaker.de)...
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