Re: Program for watching running programs

[Chad Oleary <col at pobox.com>]

Due to copyright issues, newer versions of Netsaint are now distributed as
Nagios. www.nagios.org. Still GPL'd.

--Chad

On Mon, 24 Jun 2002, Brian Candler wrote:

> Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2002 09:48:46 +0100
> From: Brian Candler <B.Candler at pobox.com>
> To: Jose Pereira Van-Dunem <jvd at ebonet.net>
> Cc: Noah K Sematimba <ksemat at wawa.eahd.or.ug>,
>      Joseph Begumisa <begj at cfi.co.ug>, AFNOG <afnog at afnog.org>
> Subject: Re: Program for watching running programs
>
> On Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 09:28:58AM +0100, Brian Candler wrote:
> > http://freshmeat.net/
> >
> > Enter "big brother" into the search box. You will find the free one which he
> > is talking about.
>
> Actually, it turns out it's not free after all. Their suggestion that their
> licence is "better than free" is nonsense.
>
> Because it's not free, IMO it's dangerous to start dismantling it and using
> the source code components in the way Noah suggests. Even if you qualify for
> the exemption from payment, I think you'd be wise not to commit yourself to
> using software which they could start charging you for at any time in the
> future.
>
> There are many other truly free alternatives. "Netsaint" is pretty good.
> "Nocol" is rather old but still does the job. Both are genuinely free.
>
> B.
>
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