compiling argus on a BSDI box?

[Carter Bullard]

Hey Alex,
   Thanks!  I had a freeze on the code, but the best
freeze's sometimes thaw out unexpectedly ;o)
If I can I'll try to get these in this weekend.

Carter  

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alexander Bochmann [mailto:bochmann at infra.de]
> Sent: Thursday, September 23, 1999 2:28 PM
> To: argus at lists.andrew.cmu.edu
> Subject: compiling argus on a BSDI box?
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> has anyone tried to compile argus (-1.8) on a machine running BSDI 3? 
> 
> I have managed to compile at least the clients (the BSDI box here 
> has the most diskspace and all the old argus data files are 
> stored there), 
> and I have encountered some minor problems (sorry, no diff's, because 
> actually I have no clue about C programming and I should be 
> preparing for 
> my diploma right now instead of fiddling with software ;-) - 
> but I have 
> a short description...
> 
> include/cons_out.h:
> It seems there is no struct ether_addr in netinet/if_ether.h on BSDI 3
> I just added the following to cons_out.h:
> 
> #if defined(bsdi)
> struct  ether_addr {
>         u_char  ether_addr_octet[6];
> };
> #endif
> 
> (found in some include file on an OpenBSD machine :) ...)
> 
> common/argus_parse.c:
> should probably use mktime instead of timelocal on BSDI (just 
> added an 
> -Dtimelocal=mktime to the DEFS in the Makefiles for now).
> 
> common/addrtoname.c:
> uses ether_ntohost several times, which does not seem to 
> exist on BSDI, 
> so I just added something like an && !defined(bsdi) to the 
> existing #if's 
> surrounding these.
> 
> At least ra and raservices seem to work fine (didn't try much 
> else yet)...
> 
> Alex.
> 
>