Request for improvement

Paul Schmehl pschmehl_lists at tx.rr.com
Wed Oct 24 12:22:29 EDT 2012


--On October 24, 2012 10:43:16 AM -0400 Carter Bullard <carter at qosient.com> 
wrote:

> Hey Paul,
> Don't do any more patching until you get a current version of the code
> !!! You should be working with argus[-clients]-3.0.6.x or 3.0.7.x.
>
> There is no reason to use INET_ATON(), because you're inserting strings,
> not actual IP addresses.  If you change the format, using something like
>    "-s saddr:%d"
>
> then all is done correctly.  I suggest that you don't spend a lot of time
> making any more changes until you get a current release to work with.
>

Well, since I have to make major fixes to the port, I might as well update 
it to the current version as well.  So, I'll do that before I do anything 
else.

I don't know if you want to patch your code for ENGINE=MyISAM, but it 
should, at a minimum, be selectable based on which version of mysql is 
installed.  In 5.5 TYPE=MyISAM is a fatal error during table creation.

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