Nessus compatibility(?) problem with SuSE 9.2

[George Theall]

On Fri, Nov 26, 2004 at 06:11:54PM +0100, Egon Olsen wrote:

> I've tried to install nessus on a SuSE 9.2 system (with default kernel 2.6
> and all required packages installed)
> 
> Unfortunately the nessus-installer script stops running during the
> installation of NESSUS-PLUGINS. Adding set -x for debug-mode,
> the installer script shows the following output before break-off:
...
> + trap 0
> trap: usage: trap [-lp] [[arg] signal_spec ...]

Are you using bash 3? ["bash --version" will tell you.]

One of the changes with the new version is that trap no longer allows
the "trap signal" syntax when in POSIX mode.  The solution is to use "-"
as the argument (eg, "trap - 0"). 

George
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theall at tifaware.com
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