Re: scans not actually running?

[John Lampe]

try adding an "exit(0)" at the beginning of ping_host.nasl (right after the "#script code starts here) and see if that works.  I bumped into a similar issue a few months back and (since I never use ping_host anyway) just added an exit(0) into the script, set the immutable bit (so nessus-update-plugins doesn't overwrite) and forgot about it....     John Lampe https://f00dikator.hn.org/   "Knowledge will forever govern ignorance, and a people who mean to be their own governors, must arm themselves with the power knowledge gives. A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy or perhaps both." --James Madison ----- Original Message ----- From: Jared Breland To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 18, 2002 5:20 PM Subject: scans not actually running? I think this was brought up not too long ago, but I was unable to find it in the archives.  So... I just installed Nessus 1.2.3 on SuSE 8.0.  After getting everything configured, users added, etc., I tried running a batch mode scan to test it.  It seemed to connect to the server (localhost) just fine, gave me the warning message about dangerous plugins being disabled, then immediately exited and wrote the report file.  I looked the report file and it said no hosts scanned.  I tried this a few more times, same thing.  So, I tried scanning using the GUI client.  Loaded it, connected to the server, selected the plugins, entered that target, clicked Start Scan - and immediately got a results window with no hosts listed.  Any ideas what's going on?  I tried both specifying a single host and having it read from a file with several hosts defined.  Thanks. -- Jared Breland Information Security Intern [EMAIL PROTECTED]