On 04/19/2018 01:07 AM, Joy Latten wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am new to OVAL, so my apologies if I make a few incorrect
> statements. I get weird results when I scan some OVAL that I and a
> colleague wrote for xinetd. I would like to dig a bit deeper to get an
> understanding of what is going on and see if the problem is in the oval
> or the xinetd_probe. I took a look at the OpenSCAP User Manual in the
> section about Debugging. I would like to run gdb on the xinetd_probe, so
> did
>
> ./run gdb src/OVAL/probes/.libs/probe_xinetd
>
> within gdb I entered the following that I cut-and-paste from my logfile,
>
> run ("seap.msg" ":id" 0 (("xinetd_object" ":id" "oval:com.myubuntu:obj:5536"
> ":oval_version" "5.11.1" ) (("protocol" ":operation" 5 ":var_check" 1 ) "tcp"
> ) (("service_name" ":operation" 5 ":var_check" 1 ) "chargen" ) ) )
>
> but I get the error message,
>
> /bin/bash: -c: line 0: syntax error near unexpected token `('
> During startup program exited with code 1.
> (gdb)
>
> What is the correct way to enter input to debug a probe in gdb?
>
I wish I had remembered. :-)
I think the SEXP (the input you pass in) needs to go to stdin of probe
(but it has been while since I have been there).
I think i replaced the probe with a shell script that runs the probe and
logs inputs and outputs and this way I learned to debug it.
Good luck,
~š.
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