That's pretty normal behavior, actually. RHEL5 (32 and 64 bit) reports this as
well.
Bastille has been developed for older versions of RHEL. A newer version of the
OS
has been published/released, but Bastille hasn't yet been updated.

Do make sure you've got a compatible version of Perl-Tk installed along with
bastille.

R,
-Joe Wulf, CISSP, USN(RET)
Senior IA Engineer
ProSync Technology Group, LLC
www.prosync.com

-----Original Message-----
From: listbounce (at) securityfocus (dot) com [email concealed] [mailto:listbounce (at) securityfocus (dot) com [email concealed]] On
Behalf Of JP Vicente
Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2007 17:04
To: Matthew Lee Hinman
Cc: focus-linux (at) securityfocus (dot) com [email concealed]
Subject: RE: Linux Hardening

Below is the exact error that I got when I ran Bastille on FC7 and RHEL5.

[root@localhost ~]# InteractiveBastille
ERROR: Couldn't determine Red Hat version! Setting to 9!
ERROR: Couldn't determine Red Hat version! Setting to 9!
ERROR: Couldn't determine Red Hat version! Setting to 9!
NOTE: Valid display found; defaulting to Tk (X) interface.
ERROR: Couldn't determine Red Hat version! Setting to 9!
NOTE: Using Tk user interface module.
ERROR: Couldn't determine Red Hat version! Setting to 9!
NOTE: Only displaying questions relevant to the current configuration.
ERROR: Couldn't determine Red Hat version! Setting to 9!
ERROR: Could not load the 'Tk.pm' interface module.This may be due to an
invalid $DISPLAY setting,or the module not being visible to Perl.

-----Original Message-----
From: Matthew Lee Hinman [mailto:matthew.hinman (at) gmail (dot) com [email concealed]]
Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2007 4:21 PM
To: JP Vicente
Cc: focus-linux (at) securityfocus (dot) com [email concealed]
Subject: Re: Linux Hardening

The tool is still being actively developed and supported. 3.09 is indeed the
latest verion (found here: http://bastille-linux.sourceforge.net/index.html)
Can you give a little bit more info about how this isn't working on later
versions of Linux? (like an error message, etc)

- Lee

* jvicente (at) asft (dot) net [email concealed] <jvicente (at) asft (dot) net [email concealed]> [2007-10-11 12:36:39 -0000]:

>Hi,
>
>
>I was looking for a Linux hardening tool. I found Bastille. The latest = version
that I was able to find is 3.09. I cannot seem to get this = version to work on
later versions of Linux (RHEL 5, FC 6,7) = distributions.
>
>
>Is this tool still being supported? Is there a similar tool out there?
>
>
>Thanks in advance,
>
>JP

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