On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 11:27:38AM -0500, Young, Keith wrote: > Has anyone written a patch to Nessus that adds the ability to notify > (via e-mail) when a scan is started? > > Our network and server teams are requesting a simple notification and > I'm too lazy to send several of these e-mails a day... :-) > > --Keith Young
Do you do this in batched mode? In which case: ----8<---- #!/bin/sh echo "Starting to scan network now" | mail -s "Vulnerability test commencing" nessus $NESSUS_OPTIONS echo "Network scan finished. Thanks!" | mail -s "Vulnerability test finished" ----8<---- Haven't tested it thought.. Just came up with it ;) Best regards Michael Boman -- Michael Boman Security Architect, SecureCiRT (A SBU of Z-Vance Pte Ltd) http://www.securecirt.com
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