[ARGUS] argus-2.0.6.fixes.1/FreeBSD-4.10 <=> argus-clients-2.0.6.fixes.1/FC2

[Peter Van Epp]

	Thanks, I'll try that and see what happens :-) (since this is the 
only Fedora machine I know of, our Beowolf folks tossed it and went with SUSE).

Peter Van Epp / Operations and Technical Support 
Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C. Canada

On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 09:49:15PM -0700, Mike Iglesias wrote:
> > 	Is the Linix machine an AMD opteron running in 64 bit mode by chance?
> > In that case this is a feature not a bug :-) argus is known to not be 64 bit
> > clean at present that is to be addresses in 2.0.7. I got an account on a 
> > Fedora core 2 here, but it is an Opteron and it indeed doesn't run at all 
> > trying to read from FreeBSD and I suspect thats why.
> > 	If that is the case you might try compiling on a 32 bit Fedora core 2
> > machine and move the binaries. It is believed that they will run in 
> > "compatability mode" by the owner of the machine.
> 
> You can compile using "-m32" and then you won't have to find a 32 bit FC2
> system and move the binaries.  I have not tried what you are trying, but
> it will read argus output files written on a 32 bit Intel system running
> Linux.
> 
> I've found other software that's not 64 bit clean, and have started installing
> the 32 bit FC or RH Enterprise on the Opteron systems.  It saves a lot of
> fiddling around trying to determine why something doesn't work right.
> I remember going thru all this when the Digital Alpha systems came out,
> and having to fix a lot of software that was not 64 bit clean (mostly
> software that assumed an int and a pointer were the same size).
> 
> 
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