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System Requirements
Although SAINT has not been tested on every UNIX platform, it
will run on most flavors of UNIX. SAINT is very
much a work in progress, and development efforts are ongoing.
SAINT is an excellent security and discovery tool, and will
become more robust as the development process continues. Please
remember: your feedback is crucial to our efforts to make SAINT
all it can be, so please feel free to send any comments or
questions you may have to
saint@wwdsi.com. Also, SAINT will become more portable as
we expand our testing efforts to include different UNIX platforms.
Hardware platformsSAINT should run fine on any hardware platform running one of the operating systems listed above.Disk spaceSAINT itself only requires about 3 MB to compile and run. However, if PERL and a web browser are not already installed on the system, up to 70 MB of additional disk space could be required to install these packages. The exact requirement depends on the operating system type and the browser version. More space will also be required to install the optional utilities (NMAP and Samba) if they are to be used by SAINT. Of course, if the supplementary programs are already installed, it isn't necessary to reinstall them.MemoryThe amount of memory needed to properly run the SAINT program is dependent upon the number of hosts in the database or the number of hosts to be scanned when performing a SAINT evaluation. It should be stated that even a scan with minimal hosts requires a significant amount of memory. In the words of one SAINT developer, "SAINT is a real pig when it comes to memory". For a rough idea of what to expect, please see the lessons learned below:
WWDSI realizes that the supplementary software packages needed to run SAINT may not be pre-installed on the potential SAINT platform. To make life a bit easier, we have provided the links below to simplify the search for these supplementary packages:
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