Call me an unrealistic optimist (hey, I don't have to write code) but I'd love to see nessusd running under Cygwin. From a Nessus.org point of view, this might reduce the "pain of entry" to the unix world that turns some people off from using Nessus. For example, if you could port it, and figure out a reasonably decent way of installing it on Wintel (possibly a custom install script that installs Cygwin, plus required libraries, plus nessusd and client) I think it would open up nessus to a whole world of people who can only deal with Wintel. Sure, its not graceful necessarily, but it would probably increase nessus usage overall.
I can't code my way out of a wet paper bag, but I would offer to write the howto and maybe throw together some scripts to tie the pieces together. Mark Lachniet > Renaud Deraison (author of nessus) and I have had conversation > off list of use of cygwin on win32 to compile nessus. He has in the > past done it. I don't know if he's done it recently. I haven't tried > myself. Both the idea of cygwin and mingw compiles sound good > to me, but what would you be wanting to compile? Nessus server > for Win32 - I don't know how realistic that would be. Or just the GUI > client? > > George > > On 25 Jul 2002 at 10:53, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> Howdy.. I've done a search on the mailing list at: >> >> http://msgs.securepoint.com/nessus/ >> >> on this subject to no avail. The change notes for older versions seem >> to imply that it might be possible, but I have yet to see anyone claim >> to get nessus working under any version of Cygwin. >> >> One problem I see right away is that I can't find a binary for NMAP >> for Cygwin, and compiling sounds iffy to say the least. >> >> Has anyone done it? Can anyone provide binaries?? > > -- > George Boutwell, > Programmer II - Valley Hope Association > [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED]: general discussions about Nessus. * To unsubscribe, send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe nessus" in the body. * To subscribe again, send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "subscribe nessus" in the body
