Its a while ago that i used Linux and Satan i know, when sending this question to the list i knew that people will tell me what the best programs where so ...
Patrick ------------------------ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ------------------------ On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 06:23:37AM -0600, Joseph A Nagy Jr wrote: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >Hi, > >> >Has anyone SATAN on his machine, and it works? > >> >When i'm trying to install it, it does not find perl5. >> >Strange because the install script is in perl and i'm executing perl5.X >to >> >start the install script. > >> >Patrick > > Just purely out of curiousity... > > Why Satan? I'm presuming that you are referring to the original >Satan and not the updated version, Saint, at www.wwdsi.com. The original >Satan, written by Wietse Venema and Dan Farmer, is almost as out of date >as the original shareware ISS scanner (which is still available on the >CERT site) that Chris Klaus wrote. Saint, at least, is up to date and >being maintained. > > Beyond that... Why not Nessus? Nessus, AFAIK, is far better >supported and far more comprehensive and extensible than either Satan >or Saint. > > The original "Satan", like the old shareware ISS scanner, is of >some historical interest, but, even in an environment where you want to >run two or more scanners to correlate the results, its of very limited >usefulness and will NOT show up most of the more modern high risk >security holes. > > Just for a point of reference... I was the team lead programmer >at ISS for the commercial versions of the Unix based ISS scanner. I'm >now the Senior Researcher and Fellow on the X-Force at ISS. I run both >our own commercial stuff along with Nessus and Snort on my own equipment. >I wouldn't run either Satan or the old shareware ISS scanner any more >except for a belly laugh. > >> You might want to check the path to perl. It might be proper for the >> install script and not everything else. > >> -- >> Joseph A Nagy Jr Purgatory is where Windows users go when > >> they >> Founder and Partner die so they can figure out Linux and >> ascend into >> Joseph A Nagy Jr Enterprises whatever higher plane one belives in. >> http://jan-jr-ent.homelinux.org > >> Camarilla ID: US2002023638 Help bring Nemo home! >> http://www.neopets.com/refer.phtml?username=jnagyjr >> http://www.geocities.com/grand_dream/ > > Mike >-- > Michael H. Warfield | (770) 985-6132 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] > /\/\|=mhw=|\/\/ | (678) 463-0932 | http://www.wittsend.com/ >mhw/ > NIC whois: MHW9 | An optimist believes we live in the best of all > PGP Key: 0xDF1DD471 | possible worlds. A pessimist is sure of it! -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@;redhat.com?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
