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diff --git a/network/openvas-server/README b/network/openvas-server/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..73987998fd --- /dev/null +++ b/network/openvas-server/README @@ -0,0 +1,22 @@ +OpenVAS stands for Open Vulnerability Assessment System and is a network +security scanner with associated tools like a graphical user front-end. The +core component is a server with a set of network vulnerability tests (NVTs) +to detect security problems in remote systems and applications. + +OpenVAS products are Free Software under GNU GPL and a fork of Nessus. + +This package provides the OpenVAS server. To build OpenVAS server, you +have to compile and install the packages in the the following sequence: + 1. openvas-libraries + 2. openvas-libnasl + 3. openvas-server + 4. openvas-plugins + +To run OpenVAS server at startup use something like this in your rc.local: + +# Start openvasd if [ -x /etc/rc.d/rc.openvasd ]; then + /etc/rc.d/rc.openvasd start +fi + +and something smilar in your rc.local_shutdown to stop the service. Beware +it can take sometime to load all the plugins. |