The last few days I’ve been playing with the HeX live-cd. It boots fine on my Lenovo T60 laptop. So after about a minute a nice graphical interface awaits me. I really love the artwork of this project.

There are many security tools installed, including the Sguil client. This is the 0.6.1 version however. As I have written before, I’m running 0.7.0 CVS here, so I needed the 0.7.0 CVS client. Luckily, it’s easy to install.

^^analyzt@raWPacket ~ ->
[HeX]$ cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@sguil.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/sguil login
Logging in to :pserver:anonymous@sguil.cvs.sourceforge.net:2401/cvsroot/sguil
CVS password:
cvs login: warning: failed to open /home/analyzt/.cvspass for reading: No such file or directory
^^analyzt@raWPacket ~ ->
[HeX]$ cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@sguil.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/sguil co sguil
cvs checkout: Updating sguil
U sguil/README
…
U sguil/web/lib/geoip.inc
^^analyzt@raWPacket ~ ->
[HeX]$

Before starting the client, remove the sguil.conf in /home/analyzt/, or change the SGUILLIB setting in it. It took me quite some time and help to figure this out. Many thanks to Bamm Visscher and David Bianco! One last thing before starting the client. Remove the /home/analyzt/.sguilrc. If I didn’t I got an error when logging in: “unable to write preferences to /home/analyzt/.sguilrc”. The fonts also looked very ugly and trying to change the font resulted in an error as well.

When starting the client, enterering sguil/client and issuing a ./sguil.tk doesn’t work:

^^analyzt@raWPacket ~ ->
[HeX]$ ./sguil.tk
exec: wish: not found
^^analyzt@raWPacket ~ ->
[HeX]$

The solution to this is simple, just explicity call sguil.tk with the installed wish:

^^analyzt@raWPacket ~ ->
[HeX]$ /usr/local/bin/wish8.4 sguil.tk

Then it works. Next I will try to somehow make sure it can survive a reboot and figure out how to enable the wireless lan.