Renaud, Thank you very much for the reply below. Unfortunately, at this time I am not able to afford either the $500 or $3000 products. Within 12 months, however, it is my goal to do so.
As I have been *very* interested in learning to compile for the last 10 years, and *love* your nessus project, I plan on working with a friend or two to try and compile nessus using threads() instead of fork(); I expect it should be a great learning experience - both in terms of programming, and in terms of learning how nessus works and to get the most out of it! If you can offer any suggestions in this manner, I would, of course, love to hear them!! As I mentioned, once I have the money, I plan on buying the Pro version in about a year. Thanks! Kind regards, Natalie -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Renaud Deraison Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2003 9:28 AM To: 'Discussion of Nessus software' Subject: Re: libnasl compilation problem under cygwin - please help On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 07:55:01AM -0500, Natalie Green wrote: > > > Hello, > > I have tried many times to compile Nessus on Cygwin, but keep getting > bison/flex errors in libnasl. Cygwin is not a "supported" platform, and I really discourage you to compile Nessus with it. The problem is that once everything is compiled, it will be _uterly slow_, as Nessus uses tons of fork() system calls, which are emulated in cygwin by a very painful process and that end up with a nessusd one hundred times slower, so I really suggest you have a look at NeWT which, although being a commercial product, is adapted to the Win32 platform. That being said, you can easily override the bison/flex internal error by precompiling the file under a Linux system and copying it over. -- 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
