Hi, Reindl, Thanks for your advice. Yes, it was SELinux issue. scanner worked yesterday, the only thing I did is "setenforce 0" . And I also checked that RHEL5 box, SELinux is also disabled before I installed OpenVAS-5.
Date: Sun, 12 May 2013 18:27:57 +0200 From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Openvas-discuss] Problem with scans - The remote host is dead Am 12.05.2013 18:25, schrieb YanQian: > found your post here: http://seclists.org/openvas/2013/q1/408 > I met the same issue, not solved now. I installed OpenVAS-6 in a RHEL6 box > recently, openvas scanner always say > "remote host is dead", but actually the host is alive. > I have another openvas-5 on RHEL5, installed a few weeks ago, and it works > well. > > I searched in the internet, found a command provided by mime @OpenVAS IRC, > http://pastebin.com/m5b1b0ba5 > > then I excuted it on my openvas servers > http://code.bulix.org/z59nzu-83475 > > Did you change the SElinux to "permissive"? you can get it done by run > "setenforce 0" as root. > Could you help to test the similar command in your side? you should generally have any Security Scanner on a dedicated machine with SELinux *disabled* and nothing for porduction on the same machine nor allow any incoming access from the internet to the scanner _______________________________________________ Openvas-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wald.intevation.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openvas-discuss
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