Bug#865445: openvas-scanner shall not start at boot

[Hans-J. Ullrich]

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

Dear Maintainer,

just a wish. I believe, it is not possible, to inhibit openvas-scanner (and openvas-manager and greenbone-security-assistant) at boot. I believe, I have read something about, that this is hardcoded in the system. Of course I asked the developers of openvas at this, but they said, this is related to the packaging. So I do not know, what is really happening.

This is, what I see:

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systemctl disable openvas-scanner
Synchronizing state of openvas-scanner.service with SysV service script with /
lib/systemd/systemd-sysv-install.
Executing: /lib/systemd/systemd-sysv-install disable openvas-scanner
update-rc.d: error: openvas-scanner Default-Start contains no runlevels, 
aborting.

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Maybe this can be changed in next release? Just a wish, as openvas-scanner and this, consumes a "little" too much unneeded processing power (until openvassd is completely started)

Just a wish....

Thank you for the work and for creating packages. It makes life so much easier!

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), LANGUAGE= (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]  1.5.61
ii  init-system-helpers    1.48
ii  libc6                  2.24-11+deb9u1
ii  libgcrypt20            1.7.6-2
ii  libglib2.0-0           2.50.3-2
ii  libopenvas8            8.0.8-2
ii  lsb-base               9.20161125
ii  openssl                1.1.0f-3
ii  redis-server           3:3.2.9-1

Versions of packages openvas-scanner recommends:
ii  nmap   7.40-1
ii  rsync  3.1.2-2

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