Thanks!  I'll disable arachni.  What about the wapiti-related messages?  

Jack Harvey  RHCE CISSP
Synnex Corporation
864-349-4939

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Am 30.09.2014 um 21:39 schrieb Jack Harvey:
> I realize this has been asked...and asked...and...but enquiring minds want 
> to know...
> 
> OpenVAS v7 install via atomic repo  includes in the pre-built scan 
> configs components arachni and wapiti (and of course others)
> 
> I am getting this when I run a scan using "Full and very deep ultimate" 
> config:
> 
> Vulnerability Detection Result:
> arachni report filename is empty. that could mean that wrong version 
> of arachni is used or tmp dir is not accessible.
> In short: check installation of arachni and OpenVAS
> 
> I found this which was posted 2/22/2013 by Tasos Laskos:
> 
> I'm sorry, that OpenVAS plugin was written a long time ago by a 
> third-party and has been incompatible with Arachni for a long time.
> 
> It's not supported by the Arachni project nor OpenVAS and from what I 
> remember it used to parse the text report using regular expressions 
> (which is a really unreliable way to extract the necessary information) so 
> you're actually better off being unable to use it.
> 
> Should I disable the arachni NASL wrapper?

* openvas should not ship it for years
* atomic should not add it to deps for years

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