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I've started working on making NRPE somewhat maintainable, as it's a
bit of a mess in its current state.

The original goal was adding IPv6-support, which I've done, but it has
escalated somewhat after that.

I've since:

- Transitioned to autotools/autoconf for a somewhat more convenient
build system
- ... Introduced system-wide header files (...)
- Started sorting out what's local and global, removing redundant
prototypes and declaring functions static
- Imported a couple of patches kept by Debian that were reasonable.
- Re-indented the code (Normally I wouldn't do this on a project
that's not mine, but I wasn't able to wrap my head around the style as
it was -- too far off)
- Removed several redundant comments (Stuff like "/* wait for
connections */ wait_for_connections();" which only serves as noise)
- Removed unused or unneeded code.
- Misc other

While the IPv6-support is fairly complete (using getaddrinfo()), the
nrpe-server needs two more features to be release-ready: Listening to
both ipv4 and ipv6 at the same time, and ipv6-awareness in
allowed_hosts. This is on my todo-list. I also expect I've broken the
build on certain platforms, and I intend to test this to some degree.

The work can be found at: https://github.com/KristianLyng/nrpe

I do not want to maintain a fork, thus I'm interested to co-operate to
get this "upstream". Since the code looked almost abandoned, I decided
that it would be best to adapt a "fix first, ask later"-approach.

I've so far dubbed it NRPE "3.0", and I'm using it both nrpe-server
and check_nrpe on several servers.

Any and all feedback is much welcomed.

I'm also on IRC (KristianL on freenode).

Regards,
Kristian





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