On 3/5/26 5:40 PM, Jeremy Laidman wrote:
However, there still may be difficult choices to make. If we don't want to cut off support for older OSes on the client, then the client packages still need to be published somewhere. Which means, if there's a new security vulnerability, those packages would need to be updated, which requires that the build environment needs to maintain support for old OSes.
I feel like Sendmail's idea of a "contributed code" section might be an option. As in -- if authorized -- Xymon can re-distribute code provided by contributors "as is". Meaning here's something you might find useful, but support of it is on you the end user.
Seeing as how there are really two components to the client; binary and scripts, I see little reason that the scripts can't be distributed. I'm quite successfully using the scripts on an ancient AIX 5.3 box with a custom Perl wrapper to send the output from the scripts to the Xymon server. (I don't have access to compilers on AIX to be able to compile the client binaries.)
-- Grant. . . . unix || die