[ARGUS] Argus 5.0 on FreeBSD 14

[Carter Bullard]

Hey Mike,
I was happy with the 1 choice, and realized if you install dbus on FreeBSD, you can generate /var/lib/dbus/machine-id, which gave a reasonable 2 choices, but a third ?  ;o)

On my machine /etc/hostid and /etc/machine-id are the same values, but hostid has the traditional UUID format … argus doesn’t care about the format so either work fine …

Is /etc/hostid better than /etc/machine-id ???  Seems that the kernel install for FreeBSD now generates /etc/machine-id, but that seems to be a recent phenomenon  ???

Carter


> On Jan 11, 2024, at 1:31 PM, mike tancsa <mike at sentex.ca> wrote:
> 
> 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/

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