[Open-scap] Running example oval_probe against SCAP-RHEL5-OVAL

[Edward Sealing]

Daniel, Thanks for the update. I'll be sure to use bugzilla for tracking
(finally got an account yesterday).

I was looking at the archives the other day and saw talk about running
openscap as a service/daemon. Is this still part of the intention??
Running as a service, with regular system probing would greatly enhance
the security confidence in systems that always degrades over time. 

~Ed Sealing

-----Original Message-----
From: Daniel Kopecek [mailto:dkopecek at redhat.com] 
Sent: Sunday, February 14, 2010 5:47 PM
To: Edward Sealing
Cc: open-scap-list at redhat.com
Subject: Re: [Open-scap] Running example oval_probe against
SCAP-RHEL5-OVAL

Hi Edward,

On Fri, 12 Feb 2010 11:49:09 -0500
"Edward Sealing" <esealing at tresys.com> wrote:

> Every other time or so (can't find a consistent pattern), oval_probe 
> hangs when running against the scap-rhel5-oval content. Has anyone 
> else seen these problems or been able to run the entire 
> scap-rhel5-oval content successfully on RHEL??

thanks for the report, this is a known problem and we are working on it.
I'll let you know when the fix is available (probably next week).

> Even with debug on, it just freezes during one of the SEAP messages (I

> think it's the one that recurses the root file system looking at 
> symlinks & directories). The probe processes are all running
(sleeping).
> 
> Here's my environment:
> 
>  - default install of RHEL 5.4
>  - trunk build of openscap
>  - unchanged oval_probe.c compiled against open-scap library
> 
> 
> Edward Sealing
> Linux Services & Solutions Practice
> Tresys Technology
> Columbia, MD 21045
> Phone: 410.290.1411  x101
> esealing at tresys.com |
> 
> 
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