Re: [Bastille-linux-discuss] ERROR: Bastille tried to use $GLOBAL_SERVICE{'nis.server'} but it does not exist

[Paul A. <pau...@co...>]

On 03/17/2012 12:21 AM, Dwijadas Dey wrote:
> Hi
>       List users
>                      I have installed Bastille 3.2.1 in Centos 6 but
> whenever i try to run bastille -x through command prompt i get the
> following error.
>
> |ERROR:   Could not determine CentOS version! Setting to Red Hat
> Enterprise 4 AS.
> |ERROR:   Could not determine CentOS version! Setting to Red Hat
> Enterprise 4 AS.
> |NOTE:    Using Tk user interface module.
> |NOTE:    Only displaying questions relevant to the current configuration.
> |NOTE:    Bastille is scanning the system configuration...
> |ERROR:   Bastille tried to use $GLOBAL_SERVICE{'nis.server'} but it
> does not exist.
> |Can't use an undefined value as an ARRAY reference at
> /usr/lib/Bastille/API/ServiceAdmin.pm line 598, |<FILE>  line 249.
>
> For running Bastille is it absolutely necessary to install and run NIS
> server ?
Nope.  It should be completely optional.

But, the larger issue is that Bastille has been essentially dead since 
about 2008.  There's a note dated 1/29/2012 on www.bastille-unix.org 
claiming that the project is starting back up, but
> Can anyone guide me in right direction ?

3.2.1 was horribly broken when I tried it just now on my Fedora 14 
setup.  But, Jay appears to have been working on bringing things up to 
date.  I see lots of changes since January in the repository, and when I 
snatched a tarball copy just now, it installed and the Tk interface 
cheerfully announced version 3.3.   (Way to go, Jay!)

So, the first guidance would be to work from CVS and install using the 
Install.sh script.  You might need some perl chops in order to really 
get it to do the right thing on your system.  If you're a perl developer 
and have some fairly deep experience with how Linux systems have changed 
over the past four years or so, Jay could probably use some help.  If 
you're not a developer, or don't have the time or a test machine to 
break, you might wait a bit and see what happens.

Good luck!

Paul Allen