Hello, I'm new to this list and could use a hand installing Nessus on Cygwin. My first question:
Has anyone had success installing Nessus on Cygwin? If so, I could *really* use some help. I've been able to successfully compile, install, and run Nessus 2.08 on Redhat9. I have included the steps I've taken with Nessus 2.08 on cygwin thus far below. Please excuse if I include too much information, and let me know if it's not enough. I've installed and run packages in the following order on a clean Windows 2000 system and 768MB RAM as of 2003 Oct 25: 1. Latest *complete* cygwin (except games), including gtk, glib, bison, and flex. I created a valid, working 'root' account in cygwin, and installed all packages with this account. 2. winpcap_3_0.exe: the latest stable win32 release of libpcap (by polito.it), is a required library for Nessus to run on Cygwin. Plus, copied required libraries and headers of latest stable winpcap_src to appropriate folders in cygwin. 3. Latest stable windump: a win32 port of tcpdump that requires winpcap. 4. './configure', 'make', and 'make install' version 2.08 of the 'nessus-libraries' (still in cygwin, of course). The .configre had to be done, however, *without* '--disable-nessuspcap' option. This tells me that nessus cannot use certain parts of the winpcap and its headers and libraries... 5. Attempt './configure' in 'libnasl', but errored out with message that bison and flex are not installed, even though they are. At this point, I went back to nessus-libraries, did a 'make distclean', then successfully downloaded, configured, and installed the latest versions of bison and flex, and redid the steps above. The results? Yeah, the same. I suspect that bison and flex are *not* the problem, but rather that nessus is not linking (properly/completely?) against winpcap libraries and/or headers. Any ideas? I haven't gone through the 'configure' script in depth, but could *REALLY* use some tips, help, revised instructions, etc. I'm a newbie, but am working hard and have thoroughly read most if not all of the relevant readme's and man's, and have done quite extensive google searches. Thanks in advance for anything. :) Regards, Natalie
