[gomd-devel] Re: CHAOS hooks, etc.

[Gian Paolo Ghilardi]

Hi Matt.

Well => If Ian accepts, I'll be happy to help integrating tyd in gomd :)

Bye.

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Matthias Rechenburg" <address@hidden>
To: <address@hidden>; "Bruce Knox" <address@hidden>
Cc: "Gian Paolo Ghilardi" <address@hidden>
Sent: Monday, April 12, 2004 3:40 PM
Subject: Re: CHAOS hooks, etc.


> Hi Ian, Hi Bruce,
>
> according to Bruce idea to combine "somehow" the tyd + gomd features
> i would like to ask you (Ian)  (in the name of the gomd-team) if you are
fine
> with this and what do you think.
>
> To my mind it is a usefull idea because tyd + gomd, both needs to run on
every
> node in the cluster.
> Gian Paolo actually added a "support class" feature into the gomd
> and one possible suggestion is to "somehow" add the great
> tyd-autodiscovery as new gomd support-class "plugin".
> This way we will minimize maybe required code-changes (in our sources),
> make it easy to quickly update the tyd-part in the gomd from your
> source-repository and let the tyd completly in "your hands".
>
> many thanks and all the best,
>
> Matt
>
> On Montag 12 April 2004 00:01, Bruce Knox wrote:
> > Matt, a few days ago, Ian added "/etc/rc.local start" and "/etc/rc.local
> > stop" calls to init to allow one to customize CHAOS without
reprogramming
> > init.  Wouldn't that be a likely way to use CHAOS to accomplish the
> > autodiscovery and gomd distribution you were needing with minimum
changes
> > to either CHAOS or gomd?
> >
> > CHAOS 1.0 is, I think, a few weeks or less away from release.  Could be
> > days if Ian has another super burst of productivity as he had a the end
of
> > last week.
> >
> > Anyway, Ian says you are welcome to the code (but can commit little time
to
> > gomd now).
> >
> > forwarded from Ian>>
> > the code - its all online here;
> >
> >         http://itsecurity.mq.edu.au/chaos/source/chaos-1.0/
> >
> > They want get-m.c from tyd-1.0.tar.gz.  The problems they'll have
> > are;
> >
> >   1)  the software is in flux until CHAOS-1.0 is released, but the
> >        version numbers don't change (check the file date)
> >
> >   2)  It doesn't work like omdiscd, though it could be made to do
> >        so.  All it does is look for a single IP address (as we only
> >        need one for tyd's "-m").  It writes its results to
> >        /var/run/get-m.info (a set of IP's separate by newline's).
> >
> > Hope that helps,
> >
> > BTW, he keeps a good log in the README of the Beta directory:
> > http://itsecurity.mq.edu.au/chaos/isos/beta/
> >
> > Have a good week!! Bruce
> >
> > BTW Ian, I think they need the way you are doing autodiscovery.
Grabbing a
> > known IP as a starting point and then gathering the near IPs.
>
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