This also happened to me after a plugins update yesterday morning. To finally resolve and get everything working, I had to uninstall nessus, download nessus-installer.sh, re-install, and start using NessusWX, as my WinNessus (1.0.9) no longer likes to talk to Nessus.
Randy Graham -- The Internet? Bah! Is that thing still around? -- Homer Simpson http://www.securitynewbie.com/ - for people like me > -----Original Message----- > From: Edwin Eefting [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2002 10:53 AM > To: nessus > Subject: Long running nessus doesn't generate messages anymore? > > > My nessus server was running for a long time. (3 weeks or something) I > update it on a regular basis with the newest tests.(auto > update scripts) > However, a couple > of days ago nessus didn't seem to generate any testoutput > anymore. It still > indicated that there where open ports and it performed the > tests (according > to -V status output), but the test-results aren't generated anymore. > So all the ports contain "unknown" services without any messages. > > After killing and restarting the server (1.1.12 i believe) > the problem was > solved. I got the latest CVS upgrade and I will see if it will happen > again. > > Anyone else got this problem? (so that we maybe can find the cause :) > > > -- __________________ > /\ ___/ > Edwin Eefting /- \ _/ Business Internet Trends BV > /--- \/ __________________ >
