[ARGUS] Argus 5.0 on FreeBSD 14

[mike tancsa]

Hi Carter,

     Try the file /etc/hostid

     ---Mike

On 1/11/2024 1:27 PM, Carter Bullard wrote:
> Oh and to add a little context, we use “/var/lib/dbus/machine-id” to get the hostuuid on RedHat style machines …
> Carter
>
>> On Jan 11, 2024, at 1:24 PM, Carter Bullard <carter at qosient.com> wrote:
>>
>> I have argus-5.0 compiled and running on FreeBSD 14.0 …
>> Argus 5.0 has a new feature where it can use 128-bit UUIDs for the scrid, and the zero-conf strategy for argus running on endpoints is to use the endpoints hostuuid / machine-id as the argus srcid.
>> Linux, MacOS X, Windows, and BSD all have different ways of getting the hostuuid / machine-id.  For FreeBSD, there is /etc/machine-id, is this the best place to get the hostuuid ???
>> I have that working, and no real way of configuring it yet … is this the best way to get the endpoints UUID  ???
>>
>> Carter
>>
>>> On Jan 10, 2024, at 11:59 AM, Carter Bullard <carter at qosient.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hey Mahlon,
>>> We have multiple votes for FreeBSD, so I’ll make sure it compiles cleanly and then offer it up for testing for FreeBSD, which should be in a few days.
>>> I’ll make it available through GitHub as a separate branch ...
>>>
>>> In testing argus-5.0, it is, by default, not compatible with argus-3.0 clients.  There is an option in argus.conf for argus-5.0 to generate 3.0 formatted data, and that will be what we’ll want to do at first.  At least its an incremental test at that point.
>>>
>>> Getting ready for the general argus-5.0 release,  if you have a short list of client programs that you would like to test, I’ll make a testing distro for the clients package at the same time …
>>>
>>> Thanks, and I hope that all is most excellent !!!!!!!
>>>
>>> Carter
>>>
>>>
>>>> On Jan 10, 2024, at 11:37 AM, Mahlon E. Smith <mahlon at martini.nu> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Jan 08, 2024, Carter Bullard wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I’m finishing the touchup’s on argus-5.0, and I’m testing on a few
>>>>> OS’s to make sure it makes and installs properly.
>>>>>
>>>>> The OS’s I’ve gotten through are:
>>>>> Mac OS Sonoma 14.x
>>>>> Ubuntu 23.10
>>>>> Windows 11 - using Cygwin
>>>>> Windows 10 - using Cygwin
>>>>> RedHat Server 3.10
>>>>> Rocky Linux 9.3
>>>>> Debian 12
>>>>> Fedora
>>>>> CentOS
>>>>> Kali LInux 2023.4
>>>>>
>>>>> Are there any other OS’s that we should test on ??? [...] If there is one
>>>>> you would like tested, please send some email in the next few weeks …
>>>>
>>>> Hello Carter!  I'd humbly request FreeBSD to be added to the testing
>>>> matrix. (cc'ed the port maintainer as well, not sure if he's on this list.)
>>>>
>>>> Very much looking forward to Argus 5!
>>>>
>>>> -- 
>>>> Mahlon E. Smith
>>>> http://www.martini.nu/