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Using current stable Debian amd64. Installed the security hardening program Bastille in the normal way it said:
ERROR: 'DB6.0' is not a supported operating system.
So unpacked the *.tar.bz2 version:
Code:
$ ./InteractiveBastille
ERROR: 'DB6.0' is not a supported operating system.
Valid operating system versions are as follows:
'DB2.2' 'DB3.0' 'DB3.1' 'DB4.0' 'RH6.0'
'RH6.1' 'RH6.2' 'RH7.0' 'RH7.1' 'RH7.2'
'RH7.3' 'RH8.0' 'RH9' 'MN6.0' 'MN6.1'
'MN7.0' 'MN7.1' 'MN7.2' 'MN8.0' 'MN8.1'
'MN8.2' 'HP-UX11.00' 'HP-UX11.11' 'HP-UX11.22' 'HP-UX11.23'
'SE7.2' 'SE7.3' 'SE8.0' 'TB7.0' 'OSX10.2.0'
'OSX10.2.1' 'OSX10.2.2' 'OSX10.2.3' 'OSX10.2.4'
ERROR: Invalid argument list:
Usage: bastille [ -b | -c | -r | -x [ --os version ] ]
-b : use a saved config file to apply changes
directly to system
-c : use the Curses (non-X11) TUI
-r : revert all Bastille changes to-date
-x : use the Perl/Tk (X11) GUI
--os version : ask all questions for the given operating system
version. e.g. --os RH6.0
So Bastille won't work?
The reason I ask is that I had this problem before, or similar, and someone here fixed it and Bastille worked. Thanks any help.
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Javier is an amazing Open Source developer who maintains both the Bastille port and the Tiger port for Debian.
Note the word Tiger...that OS version is very old!
Whoever is wrapping up the package on the Debian side may be packaging old code. Remember, Bastille is just a batch of scripts. Based on what the OP posted, either his copy of the OS/package is old or the latest code release for Bastille hasn't been updated in awhile (but code like this is relatively easy to edit).
He can try but there's a good chance the package maintainer isn't doing that level of maintaining. While I was wrong about Tiger, I'm actually pretty comfortable in saying that Bastille may be at a dead-end or is awaiting for someone else to maintain it. The Bastille pages appear to be either very stagnant or dead. They are at least 3 years out of date. I actually saw several big name security vendors (when I was researching yesterday...I didn't keep track of the names but I can search again and provide them if you wish) stating that they also thought Bastille has gone the way of the dodo.
Bastille may be at a dead-end or is awaiting for someone else to maintain it. The Bastille pages appear to be either very stagnant or dead. They are at least 3 years out of date.
Well yes and no. Yes Jay Beale may have dropped maintaining Bastille-linux but if you check the changelog you'll see Javier Fernandez-Sanguino Pena at least does maintain the Debian port and this does include vuln fixes.
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