Hey George!(...)
Thanks for the reply, sorry for the delay, just got back in the office.
any thoughts what I might also need to install?
thanks!
pleiades:/etc/nessus# apt-cache pkgnames |grep nessus
nessus-plugins
libnessus0-dev
You seem to be running an old nessus version (which is not encouraged see [1]). Nessus-mkcert-client should be provided by the nessus package (which you do have installed), but it seems the version in woody does not have it (I don't remember if it was provided in version 1.0.10 but probably not).
You should really consider using an up-to-date version of the nessus packages. You will find new versions compiled for woody at http://people.debian.org/~jfs/nessus/. Unfortunately, I haven't got around to compile for woody the 2.0.7-2 package versions (which fix bug #204872, but you should be able to fix this by yourself by reading [2]).
Of course, you can download and compile them yourself by taking the sources available in the 'unstable' Debian release.
Regards
Javi
PS: Just as a suggestion, next time you could try to find this by using 'dpkg -S nessus-mkcert-client' (sample out available in bug #202357 [3])
[1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=183524 [2] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=204872 [3] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=202357
