On Mittwoch, 5. März 2008, Randal T. Rioux wrote:
> I just emerge'd the ebuild ports and they all compiled fine. When I
> attempted to run '/etc/init.d/openvas start' I got the following errors
> displayed in an endless loop:
>
> http_keepalive.inc: No such file or directory
> misc_func.inc: No such file or directory
>
> And a couple others. Mostly the http_keepalive.inc one though.
>
> When I run the daemon manually ('openvasd') I get the same errors, except
> it displays the loading of plugins message as "1591 (out of 3511)".
don't worry about this other than that numerous NASL scripts will not or only
partially work ;-)
The reason is that Tenable licensed various .inc files and other dependencies
under a proprietary license. After OpenVAS forked, cleanups took place
to try our very best to remove any non-free element.
Eventually we need to reimplement the missing inc files to get the NASL scripts
back to work (and allow new scripts to use the routines as well).
Any help welcome of course.
And yes, it is debatable how it comes that so closely linked files like a .nasl
and .inc
can be GPL on the one side and proprietary on the other side (usually GPL
enforces
closely linked elements to be GPL-compatible).
Well, Tenable strictly insists on the inc files being proprietary.
> Naturally, at this point I figured I'd update the NVT feed. Unfortunately,
> I'm at the office and behind a proxy server. Any tips on how to run
> openvas-nvt-sync through a proxy server?
You are the first one to report this problem. We'll look into it.
> If indeed the missing NVT feed is the cause of the above error, should
> there be a note that shows after emerging openvas-server that says "now,
> go and update your NVT feed!"?
the NVT feed will not deliver the missing files. Currently it delivers signed
Debian
local security checks up-to-date as is in SVN repository.
Best
Jan
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