I have a couple of queries mainly for Tenable: I have upgraded Nessus server to v3.0.6 (from Debian). The package includes a command line client /opt/nessus/bin/nessus. This program takes arguments including path to an "rc" file, targets file and specification for an output file in NBE format. This is good for me because it is exactly what I am heavily geared-up to use. I am a little concerned however as a consequence of finding that the new Linux and Windows Nessus clients seem to use XML configuration files only. Questions:
i) Will the command line version of Nessus continue to be offered in the foreseeable future? ii) If so will it use rc, XML configuration or both? iii) If it does not support XML configuration how will it be possible to prepare the necessary configuration file? I was using the older client to help create the rc file for use in command line scanning (not slick but it worked). Now that I have installed the latest client, which has removed the old client, I cannot easily create and customise a suitable old style rc file because the latest clients uses XML. Should I re-install the old client and stop worrying because everything will work out O.K.? -- Carl Nelson Distributed Systems Services, Computer Centre, University of Leicester, Leicester, LE1 7RH, U.K. Tel: +44 (0)116 252 2060, Fax: +44 (0)116 252 5027 _______________________________________________ Nessus mailing list [email protected] http://mail.nessus.org/mailman/listinfo/nessus
