[rtg] Source code download

[Quigley, Mark R]

Thanks for the encouragement. I am a bit of a novice when it comes to modern open source distribution methods. How/where would I direct my browser to pull rtg2 source? When I go through google's front door, I can browse source files but can't find the button/link for "download all". Thanks again.
Mark
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----- Original Message -----
From: Adrian Chadd <adrian at creative.net.au>
To: Quigley, Mark R
Cc: rtg at lists.grdata.com <rtg at lists.grdata.com>
Sent: Fri Jun 26 16:42:32 2009
Subject: Re: [rtg] Source code download

Like all good open source software projects, successful usefulness
requires a minimal participation/contribution level from users.

RTG2 "works for me", but I'm not currently a large-scale user of it.
I mainly threw together the google code project as a way for others
to submit patches to the main CVS repository and try -not- to create
too many different forks from the current CVS (ie, authoritative)
codebase.

This doesn't seem to be working for whatever reason(s). :) There's
still too many users and not at all enough contributors.

So in short, if you'd like rtg/rtg2 to be better, then your best bet
is to spend some cycles hacking on something you can submit patches to,
fix the bugs, and submit the patches.

2c,


Adrian

On Fri, Jun 26, 2009, Quigley, Mark R wrote:
> Good day,
> Thanks for Matt and Aaron's reply about getting rated. Building RTG has
> turned into quite a time sink. My initial exposure to RTG was a Fedora
> box our director built and hacked together RTG 0.8.1 (with a memory leak
> in rtgpoll). All I had to do was kick rtgpoll once a week and things
> were fine. Then, a security audit revealed apache vulnerabilities and
> graphs broke when I updated apache (I've since learned how to chcon the
> web directory to fix that).
> 
> My manager was kind enough to get me a nice big new vm with licensed RH
> Linux (and backups) and I've begun to build a new RTG box.
> Unfortunately, I am still having trouble locating source.
> 
> I successfully located and deployed 0.7.4 and found the graphs look
> awful. I located the 0.8.1 directory my director was working from,
> make'd it, and found that you can't just drop that in on top of the
> 0.7.4 install (db schema differences). I restored a snapshot (before
> 0.7.4) and went straight to the 0.8.1 directory my director was working
> from and found it is incomplete (missing pm's, rtgtargmkr.pl doesn't
> like the format of the rtg.conf, rtgpoll doesn't like the targets.cfg
> from rtgtargmkr.pl). I had tried bringing targetmaker-0.8.8 in but it
> also does not drop in nicely (no install script/instructions, references
> to Apache2, etc.). I won't try to get to rated until I have a working
> poll/graph solution.
> 
> Hopefully, my story does not bring back too many bad memories, but, I
> liked the output we were getting from 0.8.1 (the director had hacked
> together some customer web pages for quick reporting). I would like to
> be able to get a tarball (or some reasonable facsimile)  and
> configure/make/install it. The mysql stuff doesn't scare me nor does the
> apache. I'm thinking the 0.8.1 directory I have is incomplete and thus
> will take more time than it is worth... my time is better spent trying
> to locate some 0.8.x (unhacked) on the net.
> 
> Am I living in a dream world where a working RTG (above 0.7.4) is not
> attainable? Is there a complete 0.8.x build (poll and graphing)
> available that works with modern perl and apache? I really appreciate
> the work y'all are doing to locate bugs and the effort to consolidate
> under rtg2.  honestly think this is very funny.
> 
> Have a good weekend.
> Regards,
> Mark
> 
> Mark Quigley
> Network Planning Analyst, IRM Data Communications
> (509) 252-6728 desk
> (509) 768-5845 cell
> http://www.inhs.org/
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