Bug#863240: openvas-scanner gets in trouble with openvas-check-setup

[Hans-J. Ullrich]

Package: openvas-scanner
Version: 5.0.7-3
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

I discovered an issue with the openvas-check-setup script on debian.
The problem is, that the redis-server does not set its unix socket to /tmp/redis.socket but to /var/run/redis/redis.socket.

As this is no redis-server problem, the script is checking for /tmp/redis.socket, it mourns a failure.

However, the problem is, that the script is checking an entry in openvassd.conf, named 
kb_location (the config should be "kb_location=/var/run/redis/redis.socket").

I discussed this with the maintainers of openvas. 

However, I did not find the file "openvassd.conf" and so I could not edit the data of kb_location.

So, please add this one to the packages (if it is already not in the version of experimental, which is version 9). The actual version in debian/testing is version 8, and "apt-file search openvassd.conf" did not get me any file output. 

The workaround is, to manually link /vr/run/redis/redis.socket to /tmp/redis.socket.

Hope this helps a little bit. If I missed soemthing, please point me to it.

Thank you for your help!

Best regards

Hans


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386
 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-3-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages openvas-scanner depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]  1.5.60
ii  init-system-helpers    1.48
ii  libc6                  2.24-10
ii  libgcrypt20            1.7.6-1
ii  libglib2.0-0           2.50.3-2
ii  libopenvas8            8.0.8-2
ii  lsb-base               9.20161125
ii  openssl                1.1.0e-2
ii  redis-server           3:3.2.6-1

Versions of packages openvas-scanner recommends:
ii  nmap   7.40-1
ii  rsync  3.1.2-1

Versions of packages openvas-scanner suggests:
pn  ike-scan        <none>
pn  openvas-client  <none>
pn  pnscan          <none>
ii  snmp            5.7.3+dfsg-1.7
pn  strobe          <none>

-- debconf information:
* openvas-scanner/enable_redis: true