<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1170" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT size=2>Roy:</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>In my professional job, I code about 90% of the time in Perl on Unix. When looking at the best tool to approach to develop this service for NT I went through the following thoughts.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>Coding on Windows is a horrible task, coding a service is even worse, given that how can I make it as painless as possible?</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>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.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>C++ requires either Visual Studio or C++ builder. Hell will freeze over before I buy a product from MS.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>Buy C++ builder and start from scratch or Delphi and build on what was already done.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>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.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>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.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>/Tim</FONT></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=roy@karlsbakk.net href="mailto:roy@karlsbakk.net">Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=tim@tsmgsoftware.com href="mailto:tim@tsmgsoftware.com">Tim Shouldice</A> ; <A title=testrm@kisters.com href="mailto:testrm@kisters.com">testrm@kisters.com</A> ; <A title=nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net href="mailto:nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net">nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, May 08, 2003 9:59 AM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Rewriting nsclient? (was NSClient 1.0.8.0 Installation Problem)</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV>hi all<BR><BR>Perhaps it's about time to rewrite nsclient to a language not quite as stone <BR>age as pascal / delphi? Personally, I'd like this to be perl, as this would <BR>be platform independant and not compiled. At least move it away from fscking <BR>Pascal.<BR><BR>roy<BR><BR><BR>On Thursday 08 May 2003 15:43, Tim Shouldice wrote:<BR>> In the support forum we were able to nail down Jason's issue and he got it<BR>> working (corrupted executable when unzipped and copied over samba, ftp'd in<BR>> bin mode worked).<BR>><BR>> The deinstallation of both 1.0.7.1 and 1.0.8.0 both cause the GPF, even<BR>> though the uninstall is successful. I suspect the problem lies somewhere in<BR>> the Delphi object code libraries that both versions use in development.<BR>> This issue is being raised with Borland.<BR>><BR>> Tim Shouldice<BR>> ----- Original Message -----<BR>> From: Ralf Mellis<BR>> To: <A href="mailto:nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net">nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net</A><BR>> Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2003 5:20 AM<BR>> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] NSClient 1.0.8.0 Installation Problem<BR>><BR>> Martens, Jason wrote:<BR>> > I just tried installing the NSClient on a Windows 2000 Server, and I<BR>> > got the following error when I tried to run the pNSClient.exe /install<BR>> > command:<BR>> > C:\Program Files\nagios\pNSClient.exe is not a valid Win32 application.<BR>> > After I say ok to the error message, I get an Access is denied. Message<BR>> > in the command shell. I am logged in as administrator.<BR>><BR>> I had similar problems after upgrading from 1.0.7.1 to 1.0.8 from tmsg.<BR>> The deinstallation from version 1.0.7.1 results in an access violation<BR>> (on _every_ server, where I did the upgrade).<BR>> Be sure to have neither event viewer nor service applet open when<BR>> installing the nsclient. After repeating the command "pNSClient.exe<BR>> /install" several times it finishes successfull at last.<BR>><BR>> HTH<BR>><BR>> --<BR>> Ralf Mellis<BR>> Abt. 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Messages without supporting info will risk being<BR>> ::: sent to /dev/null<BR><BR>-- <BR>Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk, Datavaktmester<BR>ProntoTV AS - <A href="http://www.pronto.tv/">http://www.pronto.tv/</A><BR>Tel: +47 9801 3356<BR><BR>Computers are like air conditioners.<BR>They stop working when you open Windows.<BR><BR><BR></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>