Trying to build Nessus 4 from ports

Michael D. Norwick mnorwick at centurytel.net
Mon Sep 26 23:27:44 UTC 2011


On 09/26/11 06:43, Mike Clarke wrote:
> On Monday 26 September 2011, Michael D. Norwick wrote:
>
>> Still no joy trying to build from source via ports or installing the
>> binary from tenable.com on FreeBSD 9.  nessusd is installed but
>> errors out with 'libz.so.5 not found.  I have;
>>
>> $ ls -l /lib/libz.*
>> -r--r--r--  1 root  wheel  90328 Sep 26 05:46 /lib/libz.so.6
> I see from the download page that the package is for FreeBSD 8.x which
> uses libz.so.5 so you might have compatibility problems with 9-beta2.
>
> As a workaround you could try putting the following line
> in /etc/libmap.conf
>
> libz.so.5 libz.so
>
Thank You for the response.  I decided to post this issue to 
freebsd-security with the hope that nessus might be a w.i.p. on FreeBSD 9.

Michael


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