Hi John,
On Tuesday 09 December 2008 18:52:28 John A. Sullivan III wrote:
> Hello, all, and congratulations to the developers on the release of
> OpenVAS. I had wondered with great interest what happened to the
> gnessus project. We have used Nessus off and on for years and are
> delighted to see the flurry of activity after what seems like three
> years of incubation.
there was a period of silence, though not of inactivity until we
started intense phase. There are numerous tasks we have to cope with
to offer a helpful product of high quality.
> We hope we can contribute our experiences, perhaps
> some documentation and maybe even some finances to further the project.
Any sort of contribution is more than welcome. The OpenVAS project has some
pretty good working processes established to coordinate and manage the
team. If you have special contributions in mind, please let us know.
> We thought we would dive right in to version 2 and immediately hit some
> problems. We are installing on fully patched Ubuntu 8.0.4 on amd64. I
> believe we have run Nessus 2.x successfully before and, in fact, it is
> still installed.
this platform should not be problematic.
> We took all defaults during installation from source (./configure &&
> make) and it appears to have installed into /usr/local/ as expected
> although I do not see an openvas.conf in /usr/local/etc/openvas/
>
> Although we will ultimately use our own key and cert, we thought we stay
> plain vanilla for our first test and do the cook book openvas-mkcert.
> Unfortunately, it returns:
>
> /usr/local/sbin/openvasd: error while loading shared libraries:
> libopenvas.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
> Executing openvasd failed. Make sure your library loader is configured
> properly and that openvasd is in your $PATH.
yes, you should employ LD_LIBRARY_PATH or ldconfig for this.
> So does adduser and even just trying to start openvasd. openvasd is in
> the path:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo echo $PATH
> /usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/ho
>me/jsullivan/bin [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo which openvasd
> /usr/local/sbin/openvasd
>
> /usr/local/lib is in /etc/ld.so.conf.d/libc.conf. We did manually run
> sudo ldconfig just in case. We even rebooted. All the same.
hm, so you did employ this.
Could you additionally test using LD_LIBRARY_PATH?
> libopenvas.s exists:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/local/lib$ ls -l /usr/local/lib/libopenvas*
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 2008-12-09 07:26 /usr/local/lib/libopenvas
> -> libopenvas.2.0.0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 2008-12-09 07:26
> /usr/local/lib/libopenvas.2 -> libopenvas.2.0.0 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root
> 344799 2008-12-09 07:26 /usr/local/lib/libopenvas.2.0.0
>
> What have we done wrong? Thanks - John
not sure. What does ldd on openvasd say?
Best
Jan
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