I've found nessus easy to compile and get running on most Unix-like systems, including OpenBSD. However, in the past I had some difficulty getting it running under Mac OS X. The problem is not with nessus itself, but with installing the dependency gtk onto OS X, which is not a part of the regular Apple developer tools. Without gtk, the GUI client for X won't work.
The popular Fink port of gtk using Fink Commander didn't work for me. Fink is a little quirky at the best of times, and many of their ports (especially nessus) are out of date. I prefer BSD-style ports myself. Fortunately I found an excellent HOWTO page by Mark Dulling (http://homepage.mac.com/duling/halfdozen/Nessus-Howto.html) that steps OS X users through installing Nessus properly. He suggests DarwinPorts to get X and then gtk up and running. DarwinPorts is a much better solution. Then, one can easily compile Nessus like normal. (one could also install Nessus via the DarwinPorts tree as well, but it's a somewhat outdated version) I didn't see any Mac OS X specific documentation on the nessus homepage, so I thought I'd send a message to the list. When I posted here a few months ago, there were others who also had difficulty getting Nessus up and running on OS X 10.3.x, so perhaps this is useful. Maybe a link to Mark's HOWTO could be added to the documentation page? Cheers, Kelly Martin _______________________________________________ Nessus mailing list [email protected] http://mail.nessus.org/mailman/listinfo/nessus
