Comments on: Installing OpenVAS 3 on Ubuntu 9.10

By: George Hand

George Hand — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 14:29:40 +0000

Thanks! That worked (eventually!). I changed the wrong SYNC_TMP_DIR (the first one, not the one referenced in the “If we have mkdir” comment! Thanks again!

By: Lane

Lane — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 20:09:46 +0000

Hey George, looks like there is a bug in the latest build. You should be able to fix it by changing the value of SYNC_TMP_DIR to:

SYNC_TMP_DIR=`mktemp -d openvas-nvt-sync.XXXXXXXXXX`

Here is the post with the fix and more details:

http://lists.wald.intevation.org/pipermail/openvas-discuss/2010-March/001663.html

By: George Hand

George Hand — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 19:46:33 +0000

Finally it works! But when I run “openvas-nvt-sync” I get this:
mktmp: too few X’s in template ‘openvas-nvt-sync’
ERROR: Cannot create temporary directory for file download

What am I missing?

By: johnny

johnny — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 10:15:22 +0000

Had on problem on “sudo openvas-nvt-sync”:
I had to manually change the argument of mktemp to add some XXXXXX

By: Ryan Schellenberg

Ryan Schellenberg — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 13:08:32 +0000

Great Write up. Very clear and concise. Thanks for your efforts.

By: Todd

Todd — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:53:42 +0000

These are very good instructions but setting the password is a little confusing when I go to add a user. How do I actually select pass once I run the command sudo openvas-adduser. I screwed this up somehow because once I run OpenVas I can’t login to set up a connection. I’m probably overlooking something very simple. Other than this everything works fine and the installation was very easy.

By: Dithers

Dithers — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 11:49:40 +0000

Thank you for doing this!