Re: [LHA-misc] Help - So many linux HA options

[Lee N. <le...@ba...>]

On Mon, 6 Nov 2000, Neil Cherry scribbled,

> > Ok now what about Karl Denninger's HomeDaemon? It also talks directly to some
> > devices and uses Shared memory (don't care much for shared memory, but guess
> > it works). It needs to be able to know about talk to the other controllers
> > through sockets. As you said, that program need to be changed.
> 
> There are 2 ways to approach this, the first is to build tools around his code.
> The second is to modify his code. I'll eventually do both, first add tools then
> rewrite his code so it will support the other daemons.

I think the only option here is to hack Karl's code.  We should draft a 
syntax for the interface and then write wrapper's or change Karl's code
to match what we need.  Or am I completely fuzzy about the angle of the 
dangle that you are coming from?

> > As far as GUI, I kind of like the idea of doing it in JAVA, but Tk/TCl will
> > work find too. Seems like the GUI needs to talk to the HomeDaemon though
> > because the Homedaemon understands device names (alias's).
> 
> Java is OK, I've found it to kill performance on most of my boxes. But it
> is easier for the end user to use an applet when they hit a page. I think
> you might find that a combo of Java, and PHP can make for some interesting
> pages.

Definitely.....

-lee

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