Cannot build or install Nessus on FreeBSD 9-beta2

[Glen Barber]

Hi,

This really should be directed to the ports list, but...

On 9/26/11 8:39 PM, Michael D. Norwick wrote:
> When trying to install the binary downloaded from tenable.com -
> Nessus-4.4.1-fbsd8-amd64.tbz using pkg_add it says I need to enable more
> bpf devices.  Deleting the package then attempting to install from
> /usr/ports/security/nessus results in a successful build but when
> nessusd is started it errors out on 'libz.so.5 not found'.  FreeBSD 9 is
> at libz.so.6.
> 

The misc/compat8x port should contain the 8.x-specific libraries you
would need.

Regards,

-- 
Glen Barber