Rewriting nsclient? (was NSClient 1.0.8.0 Installation Problem)

[Carroll, Jim P [Contractor]]

FWIW, there's always FireDaemon for turning binaries into a service:

http://www.firedaemon.com/

jc


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk [mailto:roy at karlsbakk.net]
> Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2003 9:40 AM
> To: Tim Shouldice; testrm at kisters.com;
> nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Nagios-users] Re: Rewriting nsclient? (was NSClient 1.0.8.0
> Installation Problem)
> 
> 
> > Coding on Windows is a horrible task, coding a service is 
> even worse, given
> > that how can I make it as painless as possible?
> 
> I don't thinks Windoze is a horrible OS to code on, given you 
> understand 
> Windoze. Also: You can create services with a small wrapper 
> of virtually any 
> executable.
> 
> > Perl would be nice, however requiring NT admins to install 
> Perl on their
> > boxes is sometimes hard, some NT admins believe WSH is all 
> they'll ever
> > need and think Perl is something they buy at a jewelry store.
> 
> you can compile a perl script into an .exe file. although 
> it's not an optimal 
> solution, it can be a solution for sysadmins that don't want 
> perl on their 
> windoze boxes. I really don't think this'll be a big problem, 
> as Nagios 
> itself must run on a unix host, there's always unix people 
> around to talk to 
> the children (read: Windoze admins)
> 
> > C++ requires either Visual Studio or C++ builder. Hell will 
> freeze over
> > before I buy a product from MS.
> >
> > Buy C++ builder and start from scratch or Delphi and build 
> on what was
> > already done.
> 
> My point exactly. I don't want to buy any software to change 
> the product!
> 
> > Building on what is already done was easier and Pascal isn't a hard
> > language to work in, if find it easier than C and C++. 
> Although this is the
> > first time I've coded in Pascal in over a dozen years.
> >
> > For non-commercial use (and I believe writing GPL code is 
> non-commercial),
> > Delphi only costs a hundred bucks, a pretty decent deal to me.
> 
> Still:
> Pascal is a dead language. It'll be harder and harder to find 
> people to 
> maintain the source. This piece of software will probably be 
> rewritten pretty 
> soon anyway, so why not now?
> 
> roy
> 
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