In fact, I used nessus-installer.sh, not the port.  Also, I changed the 
nessus-update-plugins to use wget. It still fails (but this, I think, is 
a minor problem).  

The bigger problem is that of:

> BGK> ibenlap# nessus &
> BGK> [2] 23945
> BGK> GLib-ERROR **: could not allocate -1 bytes
> BGK> aborting...


Thanks,

Brian
On Tue, 14 Oct 2003, Rick Hoekman wrote:

> Hello Brian,
> 
> You can use the nessus-installer.sh instead of the port. I don't know
> if it is 5.1 related (i use 4.8).
> 
> Also the updatescript for the ported version is using Lynx to retrieve
> the plugins so you will get the error that it cannot uncompress.
> Install wget en change Lynx to wget in the nessus-update-plugins
> script.
> 
> Hope this works.
> 
> Rick
> 
> Tuesday, October 14, 2003, 11:04:42 AM, you wrote:
> 
> BGK> I have the following error when trying to run nessus (2.0.8a) on freebsd
> BGK> FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE.
> 
> BGK> ibenlap# nessus &
> BGK> [2] 23945
> BGK> GLib-ERROR **: could not allocate -1 bytes
> BGK> aborting...
> 
> BGK> I have gtk+-1.2.10 and glib-1.2.10 installed.
> 
> BGK> Also as an unrelated and minor issue, there's a small error running
> BGK> nessus-update-plugins
> 
> BGK> ibenlap# nessus-update-plugins
> BGK> Something went wrong when installing the plugins - uncompressing the
> BGK> plugins archive failed
> 
> BGK> Thanks,
> 
> BGK> Brian
> 


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