On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 09:15:54AM -0600, Schneider, Jake wrote: > I am looking for a way to interactively stop nessus scans that are > started via the command line and not with the client GUI. Currently > when I kill the process, nessus will not dump the data it has already > gathered to an output file, it will just exit and the data is lost. > This functionality is desired because I scan very large networks and > sometimes I need to see some immediate results.
Make sure you're enabling session saving; eg, "save_session = yes" in a client config. Session data include information about a scan's progress as well as any results and are written to a time-stamped file under /usr/local/var/nessus/users/$user/sessions; eg, 20051130-112815-data. Further, you don't need to kill off a scan to monitor a scan's results since nessusd writes to the data file as the scan takes place. George -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Nessus mailing list [email protected] http://mail.nessus.org/mailman/listinfo/nessus
