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 _______________________________________________ Openvas-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.wald.intevation.org/mailman/listinfo/openvas-devel
