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dim_STAT User's Guide. by Dimitri
Linux Special Notes
I don't know if I'll surprise you by saying: all dim_STAT binaries for Solaris SPARC are still compiled on the old and legendary SPARCstation-5 under Solaris2.6 and working on every next generation Sun SPARC machines, as well as last generation + Solaris10 included? Some unchanged binaries are still here and are even 10 years old! This calls a TRUE binary compatibility! :))

Now, may I say the same thing about Linux? :)) Even sometime the SAME vendor breaking its binary compatibility between previous and next distribution version!...

Firstly, when the main problem was only in the different implementation of shared libraries, I've recompiled all main dim_STAT programs as static binaries to be sure they will run on every distribution. With time things are more worse: static binary may do a core dump on some distros... So, current dim_STAT Linux version shipping both dynamic and several static versions of the same binary generated on the different distros. Current v.8.0 is reported to work out-of-the-box on: MEPIS 3.3.1-1, MEPIS 6.0, RHEL 4.x, CentOS 4.x, SuSE 9/10, Fedora Core 3/4/5. Anyway, if you meet any problem during installation or execution of dim_STAT - please, contact me directly and we'll try to fix this issue together...

NOTE: PC boxes are quite chip today, so always ask yourself if simple buying of $200 PC, installing MEPIS 6.0 (10 minutes), installing dim_STAT (5 minutes) and START to collect from all your servers! - will not be chipper/easier/simpler rather trying to fix issue after issue :))



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