[tech] Reducing entropy on mooneye - UCC and UniSFA wikis moved from mooneye to mussel

[James Andrewartha]

On Wed, 15 Apr 2020, David Adam wrote:

> On Wed, 15 Apr 2020, James Andrewartha wrote:
> > On Wed, 15 Apr 2020, Mark Tearle wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi folks
> > > 
> > > I think mussel is a good candidate as any for getting it off mooneye.   Though I feel it would probably be an interim home for
> > > it, and longer term it probably needs it's own VM or something similar.
> > 
> > I'm in favour of its own VM, it's quite crusty and could easily fall out 
> > of compatibility by accident.
> 
> It's linked against a 32-bit libc5 from memory. How you get a modern 
> system with that I don't know.

mooneye:/usr/flame/bin# ldd driver
        linux-gate.so.1 (0xb7737000)
        libresolv.so.2 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libresolv.so.2 (0xb770f000)
        libcrypt.so.1 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libcrypt.so.1 (0xb76dd000)
        libdl.so.2 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libdl.so.2 (0xb76d8000)
        libnsl.so.1 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libnsl.so.1 (0xb76be000)
        libm.so.6 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libm.so.6 (0xb7669000)
        libc.so.6 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0xb74b1000)
        /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xb7739000)

It hasn't been recompiled in nearly two decades though:

mooneye:/usr/flame/bin# ls -l driver
-rwxr-xr-x 1 flame root 607374 Sep  7  2000 driver

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