On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 01:35:40PM -0800, Ken Pon wrote:
> Nessus commonly core dumps when I do scans. I'm on a FreeBSD
> 4.7-RELEASE-p2 system and am running nessus 1.2.6. Examples from
> the messages file from scanning 2 machines, 10 checks at a time:
>
> Feb 7 10:37:28 yt /kernel: pid 1526 (nessusd), uid 0: exited on signal
> 10 (core dumped)
[...]
>
> When nessus core dumps, is the test restarted or are the results for
> that particular
> test lost.
The results for the particular plugin are lost.
Most (if not all) of those are corrected in 1.3.x, and I've never seen a
plugin which should have reported something crash.
-- Renaud
