On 9/16/05, michael chang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 9/16/05, David HM Spector <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> Does anyone know why the os_name when running the WIndows gmond is > >> always "Cygwin?"
> On 9/16/05, David HM Spector <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > None of the machines I have tested has Cygwin installed -- there are > > no sources/build files that I've seen for the Windows port so I don't > > know if its indeed using Cygwin linked in to the binaries... > > Look for a file called "cygwin.dll" in the program directory. This'd > mean that there's a Cygwin DLL there for the POSIX compatability layer > to get Ganglia to run. If it's not there... well, if it's not on the > system at all, then I'm clueless as to the issue - then someone else > can take over and answer the question better. Just remembered something -- IANAL, but because Cygwin is under GPL, and AFAIK it can only run GPL applications (due to a way it's linked to the app) -- I don't believe we can legally run a BSD Ganglia on it. Not sure, but someone may wish to double-check. > > However, it can't be that hard to get the OS name and version number > > -- these are standard Windows API calls... > > There's also a CPU count reporting issue as well... all the SMP boxes > > I have report as single-CPU systems. -- ~Mike - Just my two cents - No man is an island, and no man is unable.
