on 2/22/2005 11:30 AM Sullo said the following:
Jared

To help determine if Nikto is even running against the target, you can edit
Nikto's config.txt and enable the CLIOPTS setting and have it dump all output to a file. When it runs, anything being printed by Nikto will also be saved to this file. For example:
CLIOPTS=-o /tmp/output.txt


This may help debug where exactly the problem is (calling nikto, nikto running, output going back to nessus, etc.).

Hmm... this is interesting. I added the CLIOPTS line to my nikto.cfg file as suggested and ran a nikto scan. Sure enough, all output was copied to /tmp/output.txt. I then deleted the file and ran a Nessus scan, with nikto enabled, against the same host. According nessusd.messages, nikto.nasl was launched, but it exited after 0.009 seconds, and NO OUTPUT was copied to /tmp/output.txt.


So, it looks like the plugin is running, but for some reason it's not actually firing off Nikto. Getting closer... :-)

Is there any extra debugging I can do in Nessus itself? Something to give me a better indication of what's going wrong?

Thanks,
--
Jared

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