Mailing List Archive: orientation needed

orientation needed

Nov 6, 2002, 12:05 PM

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I would like to start playing in the nessus sources. To get familiar with
the code, I'm starting out with simple additions to the reporting functions
(things like: inserting the beginning and ending date and time into the
report, optionally including a snapshot of the options in the report,
optionally only reporting on warnings or higher, and similar things to make
the reports more digestible to an auditor who reads them 6 months after the
fact).

Is anyone working on similar things? And, is there any documentation to
help a newbie get oriented in the source tree?

Thanks!
-Tim

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Re: orientation needed [ In reply to ]

eanders at pobox

Nov 7, 2002, 7:45 AM

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FYI: We use the XML versions of those reports, parse the XML and store
the results into a Database.

A DB is far better for metrics and stats.

>And, is there any documentation to help a newbie get oriented in the
source tree?

Yea. Turn of code optimization, turn on "-g" for gcc compilers, and
step through the code with a good debugger. DDD is a good GUI debugger.

Erik

Tim.Maletic@priority-health.com wrote:

>I would like to start playing in the nessus sources. To get familiar with
>the code, I'm starting out with simple additions to the reporting functions
>(things like: inserting the beginning and ending date and time into the
>report, optionally including a snapshot of the options in the report,
>optionally only reporting on warnings or higher, and similar things to make
>the reports more digestible to an auditor who reads them 6 months after the
>fact).
>
>Is anyone working on similar things? And, is there any documentation to
>help a newbie get oriented in the source tree?
>
>Thanks!
>-Tim
>
>
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RE: orientation needed [ In reply to ]

Tim.Maletic at priority-health

Nov 8, 2002, 7:53 AM

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> >And, is there any documentation to help a newbie get
> oriented in the
> source tree?
>
> Yea. Turn of code optimization, turn on "-g" for gcc compilers, and
> step through the code with a good debugger. DDD is a good
> GUI debugger.

Er... thanks. This reminds me of a story a friend used to tell about his
favorite Chinese restaurant in London. When a group of clueless americans,
after having waited in a corner for 20 minutes to be seated, finally
confronted a member of the staff, they were loudly told, "Wait too long!
Food not so good! You go home now!"

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