> Ah, it still took a week! It shouldn't take more than an hour. > Frustrating.... > > The competition, Nessus, installs and runs right away. Now, it's a poorly > designed product overall that throws really dumb false positives. And to use > it for an IP block of any size requires the paid version, which might make > sense if it were a better product. Or might still make sense if OpenVAS is > buggy on _all_ platforms. But I'm guessing OpenVAS just works in at least > one context, and that the Ubuntu (and perhaps Debian?) versions are just > quick toss-offs that should never have been done if they weren't going to be > done right. So the trick is ... what's the distro in which OpenVAS just > works?
The Devs use Debian mostly, lenny and squeeze. But the packages are community maintained and the community is small, so they can lag. atomicturtle does a good job keeping the redhat/centos packages up to date so those may be the best option. The newer Ubuntus seem to be giving people trouble even if the package installs OK, so there may be some issue with OpenVAS and newer libraries like gnutls. -- Greenbone Networks GmbH Neuer Graben 17, 49074 Osnabrueck, Germany | AG Osnabrueck, HR B 202460 Executive Directors: Lukas Grunwald, Dr. Jan-Oliver Wagner _______________________________________________ Openvas-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.wald.intevation.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openvas-discuss
