Hello Bill,
I should have some time tomorrow to go though things with this newest
version.
Jerry
p.s. It sounds like though from reading the other messages in this
thread that you may have some other sort of trouble than a miss-
configuration problem.
On Dec 24, 2005, at 9:55 PM, Bill Rising wrote:
> On Dec 23, 2005, at 11:32, Jerry Yeager wrote:
>
>> Satan: Improving the Security of Your Site by Breaking Into it
>>
>> Since you cannot get in, maybe you need to break in.
>>
>> SATAN is a tool to help systems administrators. It recognizes
>> several common networking-related security problems, and reports
>> the problems without actually exploiting them.
>> Maybe you will be able to use the tools to diagnose the problem.
>> Some of the tools plow right through "blockages".
>>
>> http://www.porcupine.org/satan/
>
> OK, I fetched satan, read the instructions and then ran into problems:
>
> . The reconfigure script bombs unless it is called via 'perl
> reconfigure'. Otherwise it pukes when it sees --needs in the
> opening line of the program.
> . The instructions say to run the reconfigure script, but the
> reconfigure script gets as far as looking in /usr/bin for perl, and
> then sits and does nothing --- it isn't even in an endless loop, it
> just idles.
> . If I decide that I don't need to reconfigure, because I can't
> reconfigure, and I run make (fully expecting an error, because the
> reconfigure script failed, so most paths will be undefined), I get
> an error telling me that I need to say what OS I'm using. If I make
> the guess that the os is "freebsd", I get piles upon piles of
> errors saying that there are all sorts of incomplete pointers.
>
> If I try to google Satan along with Mac OS X or "compile satan"
> with Mac OS X, nothing of value pops up.
>
> Bill
>
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