aacraid style monitoring for megaraid2, use DELL_megaraid2.monitoring.tar.gz

[John Hodrien]

On Wed, 5 Jul 2006, Ronan Mullally wrote:

> I don't want to.

But understand that from Dell's point of view, that's a weak answer.

> The more verbose answer is that I'm loathe to install anything I don't have
> the source code for.  Particularly something that'll require root priviliges
> as diagnostic tools would.  I'm more than a little peeved that Dell won't
> release the source code for these tools.

But that's got nothing to do with it being 32bit.  I understand the desire to
have source code though.

> A minor sub-answer is that by running a 64-bit only system I make life a
> little bit tougher for anybody that might manage to gain access and attempt
> privilege escalation by using uploaded binaries, which are most likely going
> to be 32-bit.  Hardly a massive security benefit (and one that'll diminish
> with time), but every little bit helps.

Okay, so if you've disabled IA32 Emulation in your kernel then I can somewhat
see your point.  You're right that it's not a massive benefit, but it's fair
enough.

jh

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