Hi there.
I followed this blog post online which outlines a script that can automatically update the Openvas feeds on a daily basis using cron: https://sysadmin-ramblings.blogspot.com/2017/04/update-openvas-feeds.html
After following the steps and running the script as a test, however, the script fails when it attempts to run greenbone-certdata-sync and greenbone-scapdata-sync as it throws an error, and then when it attempts to restart openvas-manager and openvas-scanner:
“Not synchronizing or updating the database since the current user is not the owner of the database”
“Updating NVT cache… failed”
“…/etc/init.d/openvas-manager: No such file or directory”
“…/etc/init.d/openvas-scanner: No such file or directory”
I’m currently logged onto the GSM command shell as admin. I tried switching to root and run the same script, but it throws the above error. I noticed that the user ‘feeduser’ owns the greenbone-certdata-sync and greenbone-scapdata-sync feeds and tried running the above lines as that user, but it continues to say that the current user is not the owner.
Any ideas on what I can do to fix this? Any help is appreciated, thanks!