On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 04:15:04PM -0800, SULLIVAN, AARON R (PB) wrote:
>
> Ran the most recent cvs version of nessus (1.1.12) on a FreeBSD 4.4
> x86 box and when I start the scan, it instantly completes with an
> empty report. The host is up, ping-able, and scan-able with nmap. I
> had been running an ftp downloaded version of 1.1.11 before with the
> same problem. The log from the nessusd.messages file is as such:
[...]
> I seem to see smackings of this from other messages on the list, only
> those messages are complaining about nmap never completing. I had
> been running 1.1.10 before and did not have this problem. My guess is
> that the error has something to do with the following line from the
> log:
>
> [Tue Jan 8 14:51:39 2002][62759] Executing on opentty() slave fd 12:
> execvp (nmap, nmap, -n, -P0, -p, 1-15000, -sT, -O, -r, 64.162.129.53).
>
> I may just recall incorrectly... but isn't there only supposed to be
> one "nmap" in the statement in the execvp line (instead of nmap,
> nmap)? I think that might be the problem, but am looking to see if
> this is a simple, silly problem before I go back and mess with
> anything more complicated.
Your problem comes from 'ping_host.nasl' (as the host can't be declared
dead by nmap, regardless of the validity of that call, because the
option -P0 is set). Do you have enough bpf's in /dev and in your
kernel ?
-- Renaud
