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devnulli / EvlWatcher

a "fail2ban" style modular log file analyzer for windows
MIT License
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Portable version. #119

Closed paolosezart closed 10 months ago

paolosezart commented 1 year ago

Is a portable version expected?

devnulli commented 11 months ago

what do you mean with portable version?

paolosezart commented 8 months ago

I mean, running the program without installing it into the system. Without leaving traces in the registry and other folders. Saving all settings in the program folder

SmilerRyan commented 3 months ago

Currently it seems like this is possible by extracting the files from the setup with 7zip, you just need to manually run the EvlWatcher.exe as administrator. Since the config is already in the same directory, is already does work as if it is portable. If it's possible with the installer (NSIS), it would be enough to have an option to extract the files (no admin needed), or install the files and service normally.I have attached a screenshot of how it looks extracted and running portably.

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devnulli commented 3 months ago

thats correct, the executable itself does not have any (relevant) dependencies to outside its folder, so it can be extracted and just run. be advised tho, that for reading log entries and modifying the firewall you would need the admin privileges, and also, if evlwatcher was not installed before, the first call would create an eventsource called EvlWatcher, which will also need admin rights