On Thu, March 6, 2008 4:46 am, Jan-Oliver Wagner wrote:
> On Mittwoch, 5. März 2008, Randal T. Rioux wrote:
>> I almost hijacked Mr. Wagner's post re: SuSE, but thought that to be
>> rude :-)
>>
>> Perhaps I missed it. I've been asleep at the wheel since first
>> discussing
>> OpenVAS with Tim a year or two ago (the first hint of forking was in the
>> air). Anyway, there doesn't appear to be any SPARC/Solaris packages out
>> there. I can take on that task if so desired and agreed to. Anyone for
>> IRIX, AIX and/or HP-UX packages as well?!
>
> Solaris is probably of interest, but it has been decades ago I worked
> with it in production. So, I am not sure wether there is a standard
> package
> format for Solaris. If so, it would be of course nice to accompany
> the .deb and .rpm with some Solaris packages.

Very well, I shall get started on it!

> Apart from that, currently Solaris does not belong the the test
> platforms for compilation. I have no idea whether OpenVAS compiles
> on Solaris.

Well that creates an interesting situation. I'll send a separate email
detailing my "progress" in that area.

> I am pretty sure, there are problems for HP-UX, Irix and others. We
> neglected
> or even removed support for them as there were no people in our group
> dedicated to these.

I'll get Solaris working, after that I'll checkout some other platforms.

>> I'd also like to take a more active role in writing system checks (I'm
>> neck-deep in US FISMA/NIST experience, so those would be my area of
>> interest) for all UNIXie platforms and certain apps.
>>
>> What say you?
>
> It would be absolutely great if you could e.g. take care of the Solaris
> security alerts and write (perhaps automacically generate) corresponding
> local security NASL checks for this platform like the Debian family in our
> feed.

Will do.

Thanks!
Randy


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