63806 – app-forensics/autopsy fails out of the box ($FILE_EXE undefined)

Bug 63806 - app-forensics/autopsy fails out of the box ($FILE_EXE undefined)

Summary: app-forensics/autopsy fails out of the box ($FILE_EXE undefined)

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All All

Importance:	High normal
Assignee:	Forensics Herd [disbanded]

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Reported:	2004-09-12 11:50 UTC by Aaron Walker (RETIRED)
Modified:	2004-09-12 14:41 UTC (History)
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Description Aaron Walker (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-09-12 11:50:44 UTC

Daniel,

I noticed autopsy fails out of the box with:

Use of uninitialized value in string at /usr/bin/autopsy line 731.
ERROR: Sleuth Kit (or local) file executable missing

This is caused by a missing $FILE_EXE variable in /etc/autopsy.pl
I am assuming this is supposed to contain the location of the file utility (or perhaps a modified file utility, although I didn't see one installed with sleuthkit/autopsy).

adding "$FILE_EXE = '/usr/bin/file';" seems to work, but I've never used this package, so...

Comment 1 Aaron Walker (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-09-12 14:41:37 UTC

Fixed in CVS.