On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 10:39:56AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have verbose turned on in my scans. I was wondering (I don't see this > in the man pages) but if anyone can help me understand what this line > means: (especially the last two sections). > > attack|IP.IP.IP.IP|26|23
This is based on a short status message the client receives from the server while an attack is in progress; it's sort of described in nessus-core/doc/ntp/ntp_extensions.txt. From what I understand through looking at the source, for an "attack" message, the third field counts the plugins being run while the fourth indicates how many plugins total are to be run. [ I'm not sure why the third field sometimes exceeds the fourth -- perhaps it reflects additional scripts that still needed to be run to set settings when auto_enable_dependencies is set to no. ] A message is sent for each plugin shortly before it's launched. > My nessus scan seems to be hanging at this point when I'm scanning > against windows machines using verbose mode (-V). To figure out which plugin is hanging, I fear it's necessary to browse the daemon's log (eg, nessusd.messages), count plugins as they're launched, and figure which was #26. George -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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