Not broken for me either. In fact, I have been using openvas for years now and it has been absolutely great (although I admit I use it conjunction with other tools). I think openvas is a shining example of how well an open source tool can be maintained. Kudos to the developers.
On Wed, 2012-10-31 at 21:42 +0100, Reindl Harald wrote: > this crap does not work since 8 months > it was intented to do one scan per month > > well, it did exactly 3 scans with a HUGE false-positive > 2 of the 3 - i can not imagine less help at all > > and yes i tried the appliance which was a stripped down > SuSE wiithout zypper and did not work at all becuse it > scanned exactly 3 seconds per host, it did not remeber > password changes - it was unusable and needed a week > to get it run the first time > > sorry - but quality does not look like that > > Am 31.10.2012 21:34, schrieb Scott Damron: > > Wow! That was pretty venomous. I bet you get lots of help now. > > > > On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 3:30 PM, Reindl Harald <[email protected]> > > wrote: > >> nice - but the base of CentOS is stoneold > >> it is based on Fedora12/13 > >> until Fedora 15 openvas worked > >> now we have fedora 17 and soon F18 > >> > >> since HUNDRETS of packages are working well with > >> the gnutls of recent distributions and only openVAS > >> does onot run since nearly a year it is pretty clear > >> that openVAS is HORRIBLE broken > >> > >> WHY in the world was the switch to gnutls done instead > >> use openssl which works since decades relieable? > >> > >> yes it is open source > >> but my whole environment is based on opensource and > >> only openVAS is simply not useable and for sure not > >> a valid reason to make the rest of the infrastructure > >> quetsionsable which works since Fedora 9, was upgraded > >> ONLINE to F17 with YUM (which means online) > >> > >> well, i speak here about some hundret of domains > >> and a hughe count of different services which works > >> 100% perfect over years and the WebUI of a security > >> scanner is fucking too stupid to connect with it's > >> backends which does not require ot be foolishly encrypted > >> on lcoal host at all > >> > >> finally only a lot of wasted hours to get this crap running > >> in 2011-12 too see it dying after THREE secscans - a joke > >> > >> Am 31.10.2012 21:21, schrieb Schulte: > >>> with CentOS 6.3 it works. > >>> > >>> -----Original Message----- > >>> From: Openvas-discuss > >>> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of ext > >>> Eero Volotinen > >>> Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2012 19:33 > >>> To: Reindl Harald > >>> Cc: [email protected] > >>> Subject: Re: [Openvas-discuss] openvas gnutls bug again? > >>> > >>> 2012/10/31 Reindl Harald <[email protected]>: > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> Am 31.10.2012 17:02, schrieb Eero Volotinen: > >>>>> Hi, > >>>>> > >>>>> Tried to install openvas on latest debian and still seeing this > >>> gnutls > >>>>> bug: > >>> http://lists.wald.intevation.org/pipermail/openvas-devel/2012-July/00295 > >>> 1.html > >>>>> > >>>>> how to fix this issue? (without compling openvas from sources?) > >>>> > >>>> i was NEVER able to get GSA working past Fedora 15 > >>>> gnutls-2.12.17-1.fc17.x86_64 > >>> > >>> sad :( so fix for openvas 5 is only in svn trunk? is there any distro > >>> that works out of box with openvas 5? > > _______________________________________________ > Openvas-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.wald.intevation.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openvas-discuss _______________________________________________ Openvas-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.wald.intevation.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openvas-discuss
