I just tried installing OpenVAS. It didn't work.
Here's a few things that were issues: 1. you are not keeping interfaces compatible AND you are implying you are keeping interfaces compatible. OpenVAS client 1.0.3 is not compatible with 1.0.4, as far as I can tell. So if you use the debian packages for part of it, you're screwed. You have to use a fully synchronized set. The original theory of revision numbers said "if it's three tuples, the third one is minor changes". So 1.0.3 -> 1.0.4 being incompatible is not to be expected. 2. You seem to be renaming the client. Is it OpenVAS-Client? Is it openvas-client? What is it called now, for what revision of now? 3. when it fails the client just blurts out some dialog boxes and fails. No logging, no messages you can troubleshoot, no debug mode, no verbose mode. So if you fail login, you're screwed. Oh did I mention all the .deb libraries are incompatible even though there only one minor revision downrev? So that's painful. 4. creating users doesn't quite work. with the packages (that don't work) you can create users with passwords. with the source currently you create users and it insists on halfway trying to create certs, which then don't work (and you can't troubleshoot it because there's too little help from the client - see #3. Who said I wanted a graphical client, anyway? What's wrong with a command line client? At least then I could get angry in my own dev environment and insert printfs to figure out what the blazes you people are doing ;-) So. It doesn't have packages, and it doesn't work, and it's hard to troubleshoot. Does this stuff work for someone, in some configuration? Are there debian packages, for the whole thing? How are you supposed to troubleshoot client login problems? If there aren't packages, is there information on building from source (with for example the list of packages you have to install first on Debian to get it to configure/compile? What I was trying: Debian 4 client 1.0.4 libnasl 1.0.1 libraries 1.0.2 plugins 1.0.2 server 1.0.1 _______________________________________________ Openvas-discuss mailing list Openvas-discuss@wald.intevation.org http://lists.wald.intevation.org/mailman/listinfo/openvas-discuss
