I have been running some Nessus scans against two Sun boxes. Nothing fancy, I am using the latest Nessus running on Slackware 10.0. However the scans seem to be taking an incredibly long time for these two boxes. I keep getting the following message in my nessusd.dump:
sh: line 1: sysctl: command not found sh: line 1: sysctl: command not found sh: line 1: sysctl: command not found sh: line 1: sysctl: command not found socket: Too many open files socket: Too many open files socket: Too many open files socket: Too many open files No more open socket? No more open socket? Not sure what kind of sysctl call Nessus is trying to make, but then I get the too many open files and no more open socket messages. I am having to scan the boxes through the entire range of ports (1-65535) as I have taken these over from someone else and am not sure what all the wierd things they have runnin on these boxes on strange ports are. Can anyone shed some light on how I can diminish the open sockets issue and thereby speed up the scan process? In NessusWX I have selected Nessus TCP Scan and nmap.nasl (with Syn scan) as my scan options. Is this wise? Should I only be using one of the two? I ran test nmaps against one of the two boxes and the nmap took over 30 minutes so i'm assuming it has something to do with that as well. Any tips/pointer?? JZ _______________________________________________ Nessus mailing list [email protected] http://mail.nessus.org/mailman/listinfo/nessus
