On Friday 26 September 2003 02:53 pm, Renaud Deraison wrote: > On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 02:41:52PM -0400, Beirne Konarski wrote: > > My logfiles are hitting 2GB and causing nessusd to crash. I'd like to do > > some rotation to manage them. What is the safe way to do this? I assume > > a kill -1 will interrupt any running scans. What happens if I just > > truncate the file? Or do I need to just reset nessus? > > Move the file, then do : > > kill -1 `cat /usr/local/var/nessus/nessusd.pid`
Won't this halt any currently running scans? > > > Also you may want to set "log_whole_attack" to "no" in your .nessusrc to > reduce the size of the logfile. I'll do this when I can. The auditing it provides has been useful a few times. Thanks, Beirne > > > > -- Renaud -- Beirne "Bern" Konarski [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Untouched by Scandal"
