Expanding the width of columns in ra output (specifically the hostname column)

[Peter Van Epp]

On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 09:53:45AM -0600, John Wade wrote:
> Hi Argus Folks,
> 
> First of all, thanks to everyone involved in making argus, this is a 
> great tool we have been using for a couple of months now.
> I apologize if this question has been answered  in the list archives or 
> in the documentation, (I searched through both as best I could) and also 
> wandered through the source code trying to see where this was set.
> 
> In argus 2.0.6, I would like to expand the number of characters 
> allocated to the hostname in the ra output (when not using the -n 
> switch)   If this is configurable, please let me know otherwise if 
> someone can direct me to the location in the source I would appreciate it.
> 
> Also, is argus 3.0 considered stable enough that we should switch?
> 
> Thanks in advance for your assistance,
> John Wade

	As I recall 2.0.6 fields are fixed length. It will be in 
common/argus_util.c in the clients source code (PrintSrcAddr() probably, 
something like that anyway).
	3.0 is pretty much stable and you would probably be better to move to 
that (which does have variable length fields).

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