Thank you very much for the help. Actually i was having problem with the nessus-update-script. As I went through the script i found $fetch_cmd was using lynx, which i replaced with fetch_cmd="/usr/bin/wget -q -O -" and now it is working fine.
thanks, Bikrant ----- Original Message ----- From: "Christian Georg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Bikrant Neupane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, February 13, 2003 3:10 PM Subject: Re: Nessus Plugins > On Monday 10 February 2003 12:02, Bikrant Neupane wrote: > > Isn't it possible to download all the plugins at a time and install it > > manually instead of running nessus-update-plugin? > > > > Thanks. > > Bikrant Neupane > > It is possible, just edit the nessus-update-plugin skript and you will find it > is a simple shell skript that does the following: > > 1) download the file http://www.nessus.org/nasl/all-1.4.tar.gz > 2) untar it, be carefull, all files are in toplevel dir > tar xvfz ./all-1.4.tar.gz > 3) copy files to plugins dir > cp *.nasl $libdir/nessus/plugins/ > cp *.inc $libdir/nessus/plugins/ > 4) change the ownership > chown 0 $libdir/nessus/plugins/*.nasl > chgrp 0 $libdir/nessus/plugins/*.inc > 5) get the pid of your Nessusd parent (so the process you startet first) and > HUP it or just redstart it if possible. If you skip this step, plugins will > not be available. If you use cmd line, you have to update your nessusrc > either to activet the plugins. > kill -1 $PID > > But I do not understand why you want to do this on your own? > > Kind regards > > Chris > >
