Hello George, Wednesday, August 27, 2003, 9:26:41 PM, you wrote:
GT> On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 02:26:23PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> When I type nessus-install-plugins I get the following error: GT> You mean "nessus-update-plugins", right? >> "something went wrong when installing the plugins - uncompressing the >> plugins archive failed" >> >> Where can I find an error log? Any clues on what went wrong? GT> Unfortunately, it's not easy to track down the problem. You can try GT> running it as "sh -x nessus-update-plugins" and/or editing the script to GT> not delete the scratch directory when this error occurs so you can study GT> the download. But if you've been running this successfully in the past GT> you'll probably find the problem is in retrieving the plugins. GT> I ran into this problem 2 weeks ago -- for several days the download GT> failed consistently when run out of cron early in the morning. I'd run GT> it by hand and it would be fine. So I modified the script as described GT> above only to find the files downloaded via cron were always corrupt GT> while the others were fine. GT> Thinking that perhaps my cron jobs just happened to be snagging the file GT> as it was being updated, I modified my cron job to run the script GT> several times each night. Unfortunately, as soon as I did that the GT> problem went away. :-( GT> George My problem was near that, i ran "nessus-update-plugins -v" many times, and after each try it reported me after getting all-2.0.tar.bz (or something like that) "something went wrong when installing the plugins - uncompressing the plugins archive failed" (the same as in the original letter). So i had forgotten about this feature for a while. But now i'm have written syntax parser for NASL2 (flex + yacc). And was testing plugins in "/usr/local/lib/nessus/plugins/". I was amazed... Cause when i started that script in this dir, everything worked just fine. But there were no messages about downloading "all-2.0..." (probably i had downloaded it before and stored somewhere). Then script displayed a list of plugins (which had changed i suppose) and that's it. BTW, At the first time i've launched script, it couldn't find "wget", but i've fixed one variable full path instead of "wget" =).
