Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2002 19:02:07 -0700 From: "Philip J. Koenig" <pjklist@ekahuna.com> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Nessus without X-Windows? Message-ID: <20020629020207098.AAA815@empty1.ekahuna.com@pc02.ekahuna.com> In-Reply-To: <bulk.52651.20020628170334@hub.freebsd.org>
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> Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2002 15:05:44 -0700 > From: "Philip J. Koenig" <pjklist@ekahuna.com> > > I want to use Nessus but I don't want to install a ton of graphical > junk on the target server. > > Info at the Nessus home page indicates that you can build the server > portion without Gnome/X-Windows, and either use a character-based client, > or I presume an external GUI client. > > However in the FreeBSD html README file for the Nessus port it says > the following: > > "This port requires package(s) "XFree86-3.3.6_4 gettext-0.10.35 > glib-1.2.8 gtk-1.2.8 [...] nmap-2.53" to build. > > This port requires package(s) "lynx-2.8.3.1 nmap-2.53" to run." > > > So not only does it appear to have dependencies on X, but also on > versions of other things I don't have. (I just updated nmap to 2.54x, I > have lynx-2.8.4d4, and current ports are supposed to use XFree86 v4.x > also) > > Am I going to have any success with this? I do have the option > "WITHOUT_X11=yes" in my make.conf file. Much to my surprise, it didn't try to install any of the X11 stuff at all. Perhaps it was the WITHOUT_X11 in my make.conf. It even worked. :-) Interestingly even though the readme file suggested all the X11 and GUI toolkit dependencies, ../ports/security/nessus|nessus- plugins|nessus-libraries didn't list these in their Makefiles under BUILD_DEPENDS or RUN_DEPENDS. -- Philip J. Koenig pjklist@ekahuna.com Electric Kahuna Systems -- Computers & Communications for the New Millenium To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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