Use caution - someone on this list claimed a month or two ago that they got some odd behavior when updating plugins mid-scan. If you tend to schedule scans you might be better off scripting so that update-plugins runs before starting nessusd rather than cronning it.

At 05:37 PM 12/26/2002 -0600, DePriest, Jason R. wrote:

I actually have a cron job scheduled under the root account to update the plugins nightly.  But you can do whatever you need.

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From: Phillip Pi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]

Thanks for the quick response. :) Do I assume it is OK to use stick this
nessus-update-plugins in rc.local so I can download updates frequently?

On Thu, 26 Dec 2002, DePriest, Jason R. wrote:

> If you already have it installed, try 'man nessus-update-plugins'.  That is
> probably what you are looking for.

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