hi folks,

i'm still wrestling with nessusd 2.1.3 under suse 9.1 ... i just upgraded
to nmap-3.75, and some of the symptoms have changed:

-how do i put nessusd into debug mode?  i see the following line in syslog 
when i start nessusd ...

Oct 18 15:29:57 vishnu nessusd: Redirecting debugging output to 
/opt/vdops/var/nessus/logs/nessusd.dump 

but there isn't much in this file ... is there a command-line switch for 
telling nessusd to dump debug info?


-using nmap-3.75, as compared to nmap-3.70, i see way more nessusd 
processes in the process table ... this doesn't make sense to me ... but 
i'm hoping that this tidbit will spark someone's memory.

root     30568     1  0 15:30 ?        00:00:00 nessusd: waiting for 
incoming connections
root     30571 30568 12 15:30 ?        00:00:04 nessusd: serving 
140.107.74.124
root     30592 30571  1 15:30 ?        00:00:00 nessusd: testing 
hitchcock.fhcrc.org
root     30610 30592  0 15:30 ?        00:00:00 nessusd: testing 
hitchcock.fhcrc.org (/opt/vdops/lib/nessus/plugins/snmp_default_communities.nasl)
root     30612 30592  0 15:30 ?        00:00:00 nessusd: testing 
hitchcock.fhcrc.org (/opt/vdops/lib/nessus/plugins/ntp_open.nasl)
root     30620 30592  3 15:30 ?        00:00:00 nessusd: testing 
hitchcock.fhcrc.org (/opt/vdops/lib/nessus/plugins/dcetest.nasl)
root     30622 30592  0 15:30 ?        00:00:00 nessusd: testing 
hitchcock.fhcrc.org (/opt/vdops/lib/nessus/plugins/cifs445.nasl)
root     30624 30592  0 15:30 ?        00:00:00 nessusd: testing 
hitchcock.fhcrc.org (/opt/vdops/lib/nessus/plugins/account_jack.nasl)
root     30625 30592  0 15:30 ?        00:00:00 nessusd: testing 
hitchcock.fhcrc.org (/opt/vdops/lib/nessus/plugins/http_login.nasl)
root     30626 30592  0 15:30 ?        00:00:00 nessusd: testing 
hitchcock.fhcrc.org (/opt/vdops/lib/nessus/plugins/DDI_Directory_Scanner.nasl)
root     30627 30592  0 15:30 ?        00:00:00 nessusd: testing 
hitchcock.fhcrc.org (/opt/vdops/lib/nessus/plugins/cisco_http_admin_access.nasl)
root     30628 30592  0 15:30 ?        00:00:00 nessusd: testing 
hitchcock.fhcrc.org (/opt/vdops/lib/nessus/plugins/blackmoon_ftp_users_enum.nasl)
root     30629 30592  0 15:30 ?        00:00:00 nessusd: testing 
hitchcock.fhcrc.org (/opt/vdops/lib/nessus/plugins/doc_browsable.nasl)
root     30636 30500  0 15:31 pts/3    00:00:00 grep nessus


-i ran nessusd under strace (strace -o foo -ff /etc/init.d/nessusd start) 
and then looked at some of the files created ... here's the tail end of 
output from the process associated with the cifs445 plug-in 
(/opt/vdops/lib/nessus/plugins/cifs445.nasl):

[...]
open("/opt/vdops/lib/nessus/plugins/.desc/cifs445.desc", O_RDONLY) = 7
fstat64(7, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=5516, ...}) = 0
mmap2(NULL, 5516, PROT_READ, MAP_SHARED, 7, 0) = 0x4048a000
munmap(0x4048a000, 5516) = 0            
close(7) = 0
send(4, "\0\0\2\0", 4, 0) = 4           
send(4, "=\0\0\0", 4, 0) = 4
send(4, "1 SentData/11011/INFO=An SMB ser"..., 61, 0) = 61
recv(4, "\2\0\1\0", 4, 0) = 4
send(4, "\0\0\4\0", 4, 0)                          = 4
send(4, "\202\0\0\0", 4, 0) = 4
send(4, "SERVER <|> INFO <|> hitchcock.fh"..., 130, 0)                          
     = 130
recv(4, "\2\0\1\0", 4, 0) = 4           
send(4, "\0\0\2\0", 4, 0) = 4
send(4, "\23\0\0\0", 4, 0) = 4          
send(4, "3 Success/11011=1;\n", 19, 0) = 19
recv(4, 



and here's the tail end of strace output from a process associated with 
"ntp_open.nasl":

[...]
open("/opt/vdops/lib/nessus/plugins/.desc/dcetest.desc", O_RDONLY)      = 6
fstat64(6, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=5516, ...}) = 0
mmap2(NULL, 5516, PROT_READ, MAP_SHARED, 6, 0)              = 0x40019000
munmap(0x40019000, 5516)                              = 0
close(6)              = 0
open("/opt/vdops/var/nessus/services.tcp", O_RDONLY)                     = 6
fstat64(6, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=568920, ...}) = 0
mmap2(NULL, 568920, PROT_READ, MAP_SHARED, 6, 0)                              
= 0x403ff000
send(4, "\0\0\2\0", 4, 0)              = 4
send(4, "N\1\0\0", 4, 0)                              = 4
send(4, "1 SentData/10736/INFO=\\nDistribu"..., 334, 0)              = 334
recv(4,


from keeping a "tail -f foo.whatever" going on a couple of these files ... 
they don't seem to progress past that last "recv(4," state.  does this 
information suggest a cause for this 'hanging' i'm seeing?

--sk

stuart kendrick
fhcrc


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