Wrong, I run it on fedora 17 exclusively atm. The installation guide on the openvas website is great. All you need is one command after yum.
On Wed, 2012-10-31 at 22:11 +0100, Reindl Harald wrote: > it does NOT run on a recent fedora > it does NOT run in F16/F17 > > and as long ANY infrastructure > > * http/php > * epp (domain regsitart interfaces) > * dns > * dhcp > * voip > * fax > * openvpn > * databases > * trafficserver > * afp/smb > * smtp > * pop3 > * imap > * sieve > * routing > * network-gateways > > with all sorts of backend-applications and interfaces are working > fine over years over EIGHT major dist-upgrades without any problem > i know what has to be considered as broken if only one sofwtare > fails to work > > 7500 employee company sounds nice but means usually "we setup > systems with 10 years support and never touch anything" - this > does not work in every industry and if you have a perfect working > build/deployment system for one distribution you will not > mix distributions because one package > > Am 31.10.2012 22:00, schrieb Scott Damron: > > I use it stand alone as well as the integrated version in Alien > > Vault/OSSIM. It works well enough for a 7500 employee company. > > > > On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 3:54 PM, Brandon Perry > > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> 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
