Apologies for the delay in getting back to this, I've been busy. On Tue, 6 Feb 2007, Renaud Deraison wrote: > >On Feb 6, 2007, at 2:36 PM, Eleanor Blair wrote: > >> Hi there, I'm getting an odd error message at the beginning of the >> output of a nessus scan: >> >> rules_new():open : No such file or directory >> Loading the Nessus plugins... >> Loading the plugins... 51 (out of 13706) >> >> The command-line I'm using is: >> >> /security/nessus/bin/nessus -x -c [config file] -q [address] [port] >> [username] [password] [targets file] [results file] -T nbe >> >> I'm running nessus (Nessus) 2.2.8 for Linux >> >> Sadly the error message doesn't tell me what file it's trying to open, >> so I can't easily see what the problem is. Any clues? > >it's likely that it's trying to open $prefix/etc/nessus/nessusd.rules >and can't because this directory hierarchy does not exist.
The file /security/nessus/etc/nessus/nessusd.rules exists Where is $prefix defined? >Your path seems odd and you probably did not install Nessus properly, >otherwise this directory would exist. Did you move the whole Nessus >install from one location to another ? Yes, the path is odd, nessus was deliberately installed in a non-default directory, is this a problem? I don't seem to have any other problems with running it. I rather inherited the machine on which it's installed, and we're planning to start from scratch on a new machine, but it would be useful to know what the problem here is even if we do go for the default location with the new install. -- Eleanor Blair [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Nessus mailing list [email protected] http://mail.nessus.org/mailman/listinfo/nessus
