On my 64bit system I run Nessus under a 32bit chrooted environment.
It was a small pain but less of a pain than playing around with
linking a bunch of the libraries to get it semi working under 64bit.
-Nick Baronian
On 10/23/07, Renaud Deraison <deraison@nessus.org> wrote:
On Oct 22, 2007, at 7:01 PM, James Birk wrote:
Not sure, but I wonder if the "64" has something to do with it.
I'm running Nessus 3.0.6 on OSX 10.4.7 on a dual-core intel 64 bit
platform, and the OSX pre-built binaries I downloaded from Tenable
are 32 bit. Just checked my FreeBSD 6.2 install as well (from the
FreeBSD pre-built) and also, 32 bit.
I have compiled Nessus source (in the 2.* tree) in 64 bit, I
*think*, but don't remember testing it.
I'm therefore nearly certain that I've never seen pre-built 64 bit
binaries. Which reminds me:
Hey Tenable, 64 bit binaries please. Come on--it'll take you two
minutes. OSX first if you could.
There is absolutely no benefit to do 64 bits binaries of Nessus,
especially on Mac OS X. Nessus 3.2 will have a handful of 64 bits
binaries, but that's mostly because full 32 bits compatibility is
painful under Linux (where one has to install the 32 bits libraries,
etc...). On Mac OS X, this is all seamless as the OS sports both 32
bits and 64 bits versions of every binaries (and running a 32 bits
app on a 64 bits Mac OS X induces no slowdown whatsoever for the
overal operating system -- it's not like running a ppc binary on i386).
Finally on FreeBSD 64 bits, I believe the OS had a bug which
prevented the ioctl() calls to work properly when done from a 32 bits
app.
-- Renaud
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