Nikto broken package and BugZappers introduction

TK009 john.brown009 at gmail.com
Sat May 16 12:52:56 UTC 2009


Xia Shing Zee wrote:
> Nikto seems to have a broken package. I tried using yum erase nikto, 
> then yum install nikto, just to refresh it if I had somehow messed up 
> any files, but the same error still seemed to come up:
>
> [root at localhost~/]# nikto
> - ERROR: Unable to open config file 'config.txt' (No such file or 
> directory), only 1 CGI directory defined.
> I can't find 'plugins' directory. I looked around:
>    
>     /home/user
>     /usr/bin/nikto
> Try: switch to the 'nikto' base dir, or
> Try: set EXECDIR in config.txt
>
> Also, I'd kindly like to make my introduction to the Fedora BugZappers 
> team here too. Too sum up, I'm still a student and I use Fedora 
> because I love all the aspects it offers from general administration 
> to security and the rest. Also, it's blue by default, and none of that 
> Ubuntu poo-poo colour :P I also like it because the community is more 
> professional and enterprise level! Hope to zap some bugs in the coming 
> months...anyways, cya round...
>
> -Xia Shing Zee
Hello and welcome to the BugZappers =)

I can't help with your nikto issue, I am not familiar with the program. 
Looking at their site the doc's are sparse. As a wild guess do you have 
perl installed? Needs that to run (among other things looking at the site).




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