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

[John Wade]

Thanks Peter,

I switched over to the latest 3.0 build and it works perfectly.  Does 
exactly what I need (adjustable column widths) and reads to 2.0.6 
archived files. 

Thanks for the help,
John Wade

Peter Van Epp wrote:
> 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
>
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