Did a little "googling" and found this post. The recommended solution works.
http://mail.nessus.org/pipermail/nessus/2004-December/msg00171.html On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 20:13:19 -0500, ssinha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Your email indicated that it probably had issues connecting out. Can you > take a look at your log files in /var/log directory as well as the > /usr/local/var/nessus/logs directory? In the latter the file is > nessusd.messages. At the risk of sounding redundant, have you tried it by > interfacing directly to the internet instead of going through the firewall? > There was another person with the same issue not too long ago and the > individual ended up modifying some settings in the proxy pac, if I remember. > I will have to dig up some info. > > SS > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Khurt Williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "ssinha" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2005 2:58 PM > Subject: Re: Error downloading plugins for new nessus installations > > > See my other post regarding the proxies. > > The previous version of nessus (2.0.1) worked fine with the proxy > > setting as they are now. What changed in 2.2? > > > > > > On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 01:04:40 -0500, ssinha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Also, without the benefit of a proxy or a firewall, can you do the > >> updates > >> at all? That should narrow the problem down. I am running nessus here > >> on > >> redhat 9 with no issues running behind a firewall. > >> > >> SS > >> ----- Original Message ----- > >> From: "Khurt Williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> To: <[email protected]> > >> Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2005 8:40 PM > >> Subject: Error downloading plugins for new nessus installations > >> > >> > As a followup to my earlier post I ran the nessus-update-plugins > >> > scripts with the -vv options. See below. > >> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# nessus-update-plugins -v > >> > > >> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# nessus-update-plugins -vv > >> > + '[' -z y ']' > >> > + tar=-xvf > >> > + '[' '!' -d /usr/local/lib/nessus/plugins ']' > >> > ++ pwd > >> > + cwd=/root > >> > + tmpdir= > >> > + test -z '' > >> > + tmpdir= > >> > + test -z '' > >> > + tmpdir=/tmp > >> > + mkdir -m 0700 /tmp/nessus-update-plugins-32563 > >> > + cd /tmp/nessus-update-plugins-32563 > >> > + /usr/local/bin/nessus-fetch --plugins-md5 > >> > [32569] plug_set_key:internal_send(0)['3 /tmp/ConnectTimeout/TCP/80=1; > >> > ']: Socket operation on non-socket > >> > Could not open connection to www.nessus.org - Socket operation on > >> > non-socket > >> > + echo 'Could not retrieve the plugins MD5' > >> > Could not retrieve the plugins MD5 > >> > + echo Aborting > >> > Aborting > >> > + exit 1 > >> > > >> > > >> > On Tue, 1 Feb 2005 08:30:04 -0500, Khurt Williams > >> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> >> I have installed nessus on 2 new systems. One is running Fedora Core > >> >> 2 and the other Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES release 3. The nessus > >> >> installation proceeded smoothly, certs were generated, users were > >> >> created, and the nessus daemon started sucessfully/. Scans execute > >> >> and complete successfully. However, whenever I executed > >> >> nessus-update-plugins I get the same error. This happens on both > >> >> machines. > >> >> > >> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# nessus-update-plugins > >> >> [32307] plug_set_key:internal_send(0)['3 /tmp/ConnectTimeout/TCP/80=1; > >> >> ']: Socket operation on non-socket > >> >> Could not open connection to www.nessus.org - Socket operation on > >> >> non-socket > >> >> Could not retrieve the plugins MD5 > >> >> Aborting > >> >> > >> >> I have the http_proxy environment variable set. > >> >> > >> >> http_proxy=http://proxy-server.mydomain.com:8080 > >> >> > >> >> Any ideas? > >> >> > >> >> -- > >> >> Sincerely, > >> >> Khurt Williams, CISSP, MSEE > >> >> > >> > > >> > -- > >> > Sincerely, > >> > Khurt Williams, CISSP, MSEE > >> > > >> > > >> > -- > >> > Sincerely, > >> > Khurt Williams, CISSP, MSEE > >> > _______________________________________________ > >> > Nessus mailing list > >> > [email protected] > >> > http://mail.nessus.org/mailman/listinfo/nessus > >> > > >> > > > > > > -- > > Sincerely, > > Khurt Williams, CISSP, MSEE > > > -- Sincerely, Khurt Williams, CISSP, MSEE _______________________________________________ Nessus mailing list [email protected] http://mail.nessus.org/mailman/listinfo/nessus
