On 07/18/07 15:08, John J. Culkin wrote: > When running Nessus from the command line, is there any way to ensure > that it downloads any available plugins (if available)?
While it's not possible to ensure that it does (eg, can you guarantee your IP connectivity?), you can probably alert when it doesn't. Exactly how you do that will depend on the version of Nessus that you're using as well as whether you're using Nessus 3.x's automatic update feature. For example, if you're using the automatic updates, update activity is logged in nessusd.messages prefixed by "nessusd-update: ". You could monitor that file and exclude lines with "Will update plugins every", "finished - did not receive any new plugin", and "Fetching the newest plugins" and alert on anything else starting with "nessusd-update: ". If instead you're running nessus-update-plugins, you could redirect stderr output to a file and email that out if the program return code is non-zero. George -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Nessus mailing list [email protected] http://mail.nessus.org/mailman/listinfo/nessus
