Cannot build or install Nessus on FreeBSD 9-beta2

[richo]

I don't think this is relevant to the -security list.

If you've only wasted a few hours since posting the exact same thing to
-questions, I think maybe your list etiquette needs reexamination.

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richo

On 26/09/11 19:39 -0500, Michael D. Norwick wrote:
>Good Day;
>
>I am trying to install Nessus on a Dell Latitude laptop running 
>FreeBSD 9-beta2.  /usr/ports was updated around 09/20/2011 and the 
>current source for the kernel and world were csup'd late last week.  
>I have built a new kernel with debugging disabled to reduce the noise 
>to the terminal.  I have - device  bpf - uncommented in the config 
>file and I commented out unneeded device drivers.  I built a new 
>world yesterday.  The build and install went without error.
>
>I started this thread on freebsd-questions this morning;
>
>Re: Trying to build nessus 4 from ports
>
>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.
>
>I really like FreeBSD 9 on this machine but I have a work project 
>that involves port scanning, intrusion detection and forensics.  That 
>is why I am attempting to get Nessus working.  I would like the 
>company to purchase Nessus for business but I have to get it working 
>on my test network first.  I am trying to follow Mr. Richard 
>Bejtlich's book 'The Tao of Network Security Monitoring'.  Maybe I 
>need to fall back to FreeBSD 8.2 in order to be successful?  Are 
>there other security tools which build without error on FreeBSD 9?
>
>Thank You
>
>Michael

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