BB and 4.0.3 compatibility
Hi, Within the release notes of 4.0.3 it says:
Beginning with this release, Hobbit can no longer be used as an add-on to Big Brother. Hobbit retains compatibility with BB clients and extension scripts, but you can no longer run eg. the Hobbit network test tool and have it report to a Big Brother server.
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- All remnants of Big Brother compatibility have been removed. If you want to stick with the old Big Brother tool, use bbgen. This allowed for some much needed cleaning up of the bbgen code that loaded the status data, especially for the handling of purple status logs. Also, the sending of messages has dropped all support for the Big Brother method of sending "page" messages when a status-message is sent with an alert-color, so the BBPAGE and BBPAGERS settings are no longer used.
Does this means that the BBRELAY-option from a BB-server to a Hobbit-server on another host does not work anymore? Thanks, Peter
On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 10:41:39AM +0200, Peter Welter wrote:
Does this means that the BBRELAY-option from a BB-server to a Hobbit-server on another host does not work anymore?
You can still forward messages from a BB server to a Hobbit server, since the protocol used to exchange messages hasn't changed.
I just no longer guarantee that you can run Hobbit tools on top of a Big Brother installation on the same server. In the old days, e.g. the "bbgen" program (that generates the web pages) could load the status of your monitor from the status logfiles maintained by the Big Brother server - that is no longer possible.
Henrik
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