Re: [W3af-develop] Packaging w3af/threading2

2013-01-11 Thread Andres Riancho
Johannes, w3af uses a "temp dir" which is (@see temp_dir.py): TEMP_DIR = os.path.join(get_home_dir(), 'tmp', str(os.getpid())) To store temp data, make sure that it has permissions to that directory. Also, it could be that the creation of the pyc files is failing because of strict

Re: [W3af-develop] Packaging w3af/threading2

2013-01-11 Thread Johannes Weberhofer
> $ python import scapy This command does not do anything (visible). I have seen, that the full message of the error is: web@c-web3:~> w3af_console WARNING: Failed to execute tcpdump. Check it is installed and in the PATH Error while reading plugin options: "Invalid file option value "out

Re: [W3af-develop] Packaging w3af/threading2

2013-01-11 Thread Andres Riancho
Johannes, On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 5:50 AM, Johannes Weberhofer wrote: > Hello Andreas, > > I'm only packaging in a unstable repository, as I'd like to use w3af for > internally and I'd like to report packaging issues as early as possible. All right, you've been warned ;) > tcpdump is located i

Re: [W3af-develop] Packaging w3af/threading2

2013-01-11 Thread Johannes Weberhofer
Hello Andreas, I'm only packaging in a unstable repository, as I'd like to use w3af for internally and I'd like to report packaging issues as early as possible. tcpdump is located in /usr/sbin/tcpdump; As regular user, I don't have access to this file; I guess, there is a check upon startup of

Re: [W3af-develop] Packaging w3af/threading2

2013-01-10 Thread Andres Riancho
Johannes, While I appreciate the effort, I wouldn't recommend you package it yet. The dependencies have changed in the last days and could change once again in the following days. I can't reproduce the tcpdump issue, while w3af requires root for performing *some* actions, I almost never r

[W3af-develop] Packaging w3af/threading2

2013-01-09 Thread Johannes Weberhofer
Dear all! I'm currently packaging the threading2 branch of w3af for opensuse, which looks very promising for me. I have two questions: Running w3af as non-root user immediately ends with the following error: "WARNING: Failed to execute tcpdump.". Tcpdump is located in the /usr/sbin/tcpdump, as