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Re: openvasmd using all CPU YanQian (May 18)
Hi, Paula,
I got the same issue with OpenVAS 6 on RHEL6, the temporary workaround is add this option to openvas manager service.
"--disable-encrypted-credentials"

It was told by mime at #openvas IRC. I added it to the file /etc/sysconfig/openvas-manager on RHEL.

And I also want to know, if this option is used, does it mean that credentials are saved in some place with clear text?

regards,
YanQian

Date: Fri, 17 May 2013 17:51:53...

Re: Why openvas-scapdata-sync delete my plugins directory? Ulises Cuñé (May 17)
Hello Timo,
Yes, I have set SCAP_DIR and NVT_DIR on the same path.

2013/5/17 Timo Pollmeier <timo.pollmeier () greenbone net>

Re: openvasmd using all CPU Paula Gonzalez Muñoz (May 17)
Hello,

I have again the same problem on a completely different machine. Any idea
about the possible cause and how to solve it? It only happens when trying
to create credentials (I've been able to create other objects).

Regards,
Paula

2013/4/30 Paula Gonzalez Muñoz <p.gonmu () gmail com>

Re: Renaming "Full and fast" to "Best practice"? smkr (May 17)
If the goal is to give users something first hand what about "Default" and you
can add a short description.

Re: empty tasks.db Paula Gonzalez Muñoz (May 17)
Yes. It gives no clues.

I have just done a few more tests and the problem was that the problem was
that the 'om' user was not created correctly and the openvas-check-setup
gave a misleading error. It is described here:

http://aymanstechblog.blogspot.com.es/2013/01/error-number-of-nvts-in-openvas-manager.html

After changing the name to the folder it worked.

Maybe the openvas-check-setup should be reviewed so it gives more
informative...

Re: trouble building gsa from trunk btb (May 17)
CMakeLists.txt now looks like:

target_link_libraries (gsad_base "${LIBMICROHTTPD_LDFLAGS} ${LIBXML_LDFLAGS} ${GLIB_LDFLAGS} ${GTHREAD_LDFLAGS}
${LIBEXSLT_LDFLAGS} ${LIBXSLT_LDFLAGS} ${OPENVAS_LDFLAGS} ${GNUTLS_LDFLAGS}" -lgcrypt)

and it appears to build successfully.

thanks
-ben

Re: empty tasks.db Jan-Oliver Wagner (May 17)
have you checked openvasmd.log?

Re: Why openvas-scapdata-sync delete my plugins directory? Timo Pollmeier (May 17)
Hello Ulises,

It looks like the problem may be caused by the NVT and SCAP sync scripts
using the same directory. Do you have SCAP_DIR and NVT_DIR set as
environment variables to the same path?

Best regards,

Timo Pollmeier

Re: empty tasks.db Paula Gonzalez Muñoz (May 17)
Hi again,

I've done some more tests and my findings are the following:

tasks.db is created with correct permissions by using openvasmd --rebuild.
However the NVTs table is empty:
# ls -la /var/lib/openvas/mgr/tasks.db
-rw------- 1 root root 659456 May 17 12:39 tasks.db

I have checked and it should take around 49 Mb, not 659 Kb.

I have reinstalled openvas with no change. Attached you can find the
openvas-check-setup.log in case it give...

Re: trouble building gsa from trunk Michael Wiegand (May 17)
* btb [16. May 2013]:

I saw that too on 13.04 with 64 bit. I think libgcrypt needs to be
linked explicitly now. We will add this to the CMake files soon, in the
mean time you can work around this by adding " -lgcrypt" to the
"target_link_libraries (gsad_base ..." command in src/CMakeLists.txt.

Regards,

Michael

empty tasks.db Paula Gonzalez Muñoz (May 17)
Hello all,

I'm installing openvas on a new server and I'm getiing this error:

Step 2: Checking OpenVAS Manager ...
OK: OpenVAS Manager is present in version 4.0.0.
OK: OpenVAS Manager client certificate is present as
/var/lib/openvas/CA/clientcert.pem.
OK: OpenVAS Manager database found in /var/lib/openvas/mgr/tasks.db.
OK: Access rights for the OpenVAS Manager database are correct.
OK: OpenVAS...

Re: Always get the NONE threat result after scan Widget John (May 17)
Dear all,

Can anyone help me please? I alway get NONE threat result.

openvas-check-setup 2.2.1
Test completeness and readiness of OpenVAS-6
(add '--v4', '--v5' or '--v7'
if you want to check for another OpenVAS version)

Please report us any non-detected problems and
help us to improve this check routine:
http://lists.wald.intevation.org/mailman/listinfo/openvas-discuss

Send us the log-file...

trouble building gsa from trunk btb (May 16)
on to the next piece :)

i'm having trouble building gsa from revision 16369 [on ubuntu 13.04]:

-- Found PkgConfig: /usr/bin/pkg-config (found version "0.26")
-- Configuring greenbone-security-assistant...
-- The C compiler identification is GNU 4.7.3
-- Check for working C compiler: /usr/bin/cc
-- Check for working C compiler: /usr/bin/cc -- works
-- Detecting C compiler ABI info
-- Detecting C compiler ABI info - done
-- Looking...

Re: trouble building libraries from trunk btb (May 16)
ah, very good then. i've checked out 16369 and rebuilt, and can report success.

thanks
-ben

Re: trouble building libraries from trunk Hani Benhabiles (May 16)
No implications for you. You are just using a new version of glib which
has deprecated the g_type_init() call. Added version check as revision
16369.

Cheers,

Hani.

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