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- In order get things up and running,
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- - You need a UNIX system to run SATAN. In order to unpack the SATAN
- archive,
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- compress -d <satan-X.X.tar.Z | tar xvf -
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- - You will need PERL 5.000 or better (perl5 alpha is NOT good enough),
- and a WWW browser (Netscape, Mosaic, or Lynx). SATAN looks a lot
- better on a color display. The FAQ gives hints for MONO screens.
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- - When you collect or view data about hundreds of hosts you will need a
- machine with enough CPU power (sparc5, indy, or better) and memory
- (32 MB or better).
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- - Run the "reconfig" script. It will patch some scripts with the
- pathnames of your PERL 5 executable, and of your WWW browser. If
- SATAN does not find the WWW browser that you want to use, edit the
- config/paths.pl file and change the line
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- $MOSAIC="program_name";
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- to whatever browser you prefer (make sure to preserve the quotation
- marks and punctuation of the line.)
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- - Run the "make" command. It will ask you to specify a system type.
- Most mainstream system types are provided.
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- - When your network lies behind a firewall, you should unset your proxy
- environment variables (such as $http_proxy $file_proxy, $socks_ns,
- etc.) and/or change your browser configuration to not use your SOCKS
- host or HTTP Proxy (see your HTML browser's option section.)
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- - Run the "satan" script. When run without arguments, it will start up
- a WWW browser. The command-line interface is described in the satan.8
- manual page ("nroff -man" format). You must run SATAN as superuser if
- you want to collect data.
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- - You can run multiple SATAN processes in parallel to speed up data
- collection, but each process should be given its own database (via
- the "-d" command-line option). We use one SATAN database per block of
- 256 addresses (satan -d x.x.x x.x.x). After data collection you can
- merge SATAN databases in core with the HTML browser (see the
- documentation on scanning and databases for more on this.) Parallel
- code and sharing of databases will come at a later date.
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- - Use your browser's PRINT button to print reports.
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- Most documentation is accessible via your WWW browser.
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- Last but not least, SATAN was written to improve Internet security.
- Don't put our work to shame.
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- Wietse Venema / Dan Farmer
- (satan@fish.com)
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