So one of my requirements to replace Windows on a laptop that I carry around is that I have to be able to remote manage a number of SuperMicro servers with their own screwball KVM. It's java based, but it "knows" about Windows, OS/x and Linux -- and not FreeBSD.
You'd think that Java would be Java, but you'd be wrong -- the .jnlp file it sends down differentiates between architectures and OS's, and grabs a .jar file from the target which it then runs. I could hack around that (e.g. edit the OS section of said file before executing it) but (1) that's messy and (2) it doesn't work because the .jars have hard-coded references to shared libraries and thus blow up.
I tried loading SuperMicro's "self-contained" application which I can get to run but it also won't start the KVM for the same reason.
It thus appears that what I need to do is load the actual Linux java runtime. I do have Linux emulation working; Thunderbird is working fine under Gnome's desktop. But there is no package support for a Linux Java version that I can find and the ports version is extremely old (and requires hand-grabbing the old blob from Oracle); those old versions are deprecated for a (usually good) reason security-wise.
Thus the operative question is "how do I get around that", which I think means being able to load an "arbitrary" Linux package -- in this case, a reasonably-current java runtime, which I can then tell Firefox to redirect jnlp files to and it *should* work. I don't see anything in the ports tree that will "play" yum or apt-get.... any hints appreciated!
Thanks in advance!
You'd think that Java would be Java, but you'd be wrong -- the .jnlp file it sends down differentiates between architectures and OS's, and grabs a .jar file from the target which it then runs. I could hack around that (e.g. edit the OS section of said file before executing it) but (1) that's messy and (2) it doesn't work because the .jars have hard-coded references to shared libraries and thus blow up.
I tried loading SuperMicro's "self-contained" application which I can get to run but it also won't start the KVM for the same reason.
It thus appears that what I need to do is load the actual Linux java runtime. I do have Linux emulation working; Thunderbird is working fine under Gnome's desktop. But there is no package support for a Linux Java version that I can find and the ports version is extremely old (and requires hand-grabbing the old blob from Oracle); those old versions are deprecated for a (usually good) reason security-wise.
Thus the operative question is "how do I get around that", which I think means being able to load an "arbitrary" Linux package -- in this case, a reasonably-current java runtime, which I can then tell Firefox to redirect jnlp files to and it *should* work. I don't see anything in the ports tree that will "play" yum or apt-get.... any hints appreciated!
Thanks in advance!
