I’m looking through the Launcher code and noticed ...
# kolides
sundsta
02/28/2020, 10:41 PMI’m looking through the Launcher code and noticed it disables osquery’s built in watchdog. Why is this?
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seph
02/28/2020, 10:56 PM
It's a bit before my time, but IIRC they fight. They're both trying to start osquery and manage it's state.
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sundsta
02/28/2020, 10:58 PMI don’t see anything similar implemented in Launcher. So this means there is no watchdog when using Launcher?
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seph
02/28/2020, 10:58 PM
Correct. Launcher had not implemented that.
seph
02/28/2020, 10:58 PM
There's an old issue somewhere.
seph
02/28/2020, 11:00 PM
Sometime it would be interesting to revisit enabling it. But there's a project there.
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sundsta
02/28/2020, 11:06 PMthanks
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Seren
02/29/2020, 12:03 AMLooks like this is the reasoning: https://github.com/kolide/launcher/issues/107