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-- Axel Beckert <beckert at phys.ethz.ch> support: +41 44 633 2668 IT Support Group, HPR E 86.1 voice: +41 44 633 4189 Departement Physik, ETH Zurich fax: +41 44 633 1239 CH-8093 Zurich, Switzerland http://nic.phys.ethz.ch/