Im trying to get SATAN to compile on my ULTRIX box. Why won it work/where is rpgen?
DEC/Ultrix doesn’t have “rpcgen”. You’ll need to run it on another machine and drag the resulting source code over (or upgrade to SATAN version 1.1 or better.) SATAN doesn’t find any hosts at all – it starts and stops with “(0 host(s) visited)”. This is bogus! Give me my money back! Calm down. You probably can’t use ICMP to detect if a host is alive or not. Try setting “$dont_use_ping=1” in config/satan.cf (it’s near the bottom.) It should work, or we’ll give you double your money back. SATAN crashed, hung, or did very odd things to a system that it was run against. We’ve received reports of various OS’s that seem to have significant trouble with SATAN scans, particularily the UDP and TCP scans that span lots of ports.
