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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 > _______________________________________________ > Nessus mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.nessus.org/mailman/listinfo/nessus > _______________________________________________ Nessus mailing list [email protected] http://mail.nessus.org/mailman/listinfo/nessus
