On Thu, 19 Jan 2006, Martin Macleod Brown wrote:
Hi Guys
I am currently running Nessus 3.01 with NessusWX 1.4.5d. I have created 5
separate sessions scanning 470 public access PC's with different plugins
depending on image/set-up. Having browsed through the mailing list and
current pdf's I am getting a bit confused as to the best way to set up
scheduled scans, I am no Linux expert, and am unsure about best practice for
scheduling scans to run overnight, I currently come in early to run the
scans before the students arrive.
Is there a step by step idiots guide to scheduling scans to run overnight
anywhere? If someone could post an example of the command set they have used
that I could modify for our network, or an outline of the process?
I would prefer to do it via XP as Im a Windows boy (sorry!), but if there is
a step by step for Linux (it is on an FC4 box) I will give it a go and write
On a linux box you could use crontab as follows to run a scan everyday at
midnight:
1. On the FC4 box run: crontab -e
2. type:
0 0 * * * /opt/nessus/bin/nessus -c YourNessusrcFile -T YourOutputFormat -q
localhost 1241 Username Password TargetsFile ResultsFile
run man nessus and man crontab for more details.
--
- Josh
the process up myself for others.
Many Thanks
Martin
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