On Mittwoch, 5. Januar 2011, Stephan Kleine wrote:
> On Tuesday January 4 2011 17:28:44 Jan-Oliver Wagner wrote:
> > On Dienstag, 4. Januar 2011, Stephan Kleine wrote:
> > > That line exists only in the debian openvassd.conf and I honestly can't
> > > remember why it is there (prolly I took the .conf from debian and never
> > > looked at it again).
> >
> > it definitely works without this line. I removed this (unused) setting
> > finally 2009-11-15. Thus at least since OpenVAS 3.0 it is of no relevance.
>
> Can we make openvassd.conf fully optional?
hm, interesting idea. Might make sense, because openvasmd and openvasad
can do without as well. Needs some work though.
> As in the only really important stuff in there should be plugins_folder &
> logfile which could be set to sensitive defaults during compilation. The rest
> just depends on personal preferences so that file shouldn't be necessary
> except if one wants to override defaults (in which case it is documented in
> the man page of openvassd).
>
> IOW: Is it safe to dump that file from the packages?
I guess so. openvassd can produce a new one on request.
Best
Jan
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