I'm having a semi-similar issue. I'm using nessus 3.0.6 on Linux RH ES5. If I run a scan from the box using the command line, I get similar results as listed below (no port scanner was enabled during the scan). If I connect to the scanner from a windows client and create a new policy, I can see that the scanner is enabled. When I run the scan from it, there are no issues. I've then tried exporting the policy from the Windows client and using that on the command line in Linux. Result: no port scanner was enabled during the scan. I know it has worked before, but for some reason, it is not any longer.
Running all of my scans from the Windows client is not an option, so I need to find out how to re-enable this functionality in the command-line. I've compared .nessusrc files from previous scans and can find no real differences that would be causing this. Brock Tucker -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of teknet8 Sent: Monday, February 18, 2008 3:13 AM To: [email protected] Subject: no port scanner was enabled during the scan Hello I use nessus in text mode like this: echo "2" | /usr/bin/nessus -q -T html_graph nessus_server 1241 nessus_user password $HOME/target_$TARGET_NET $HOME/results_$TARGET-$DATE The problem is that after receiving results for each host i receive warning: WARNING : no port scanner was enabled during the scan. This may lead to incomplete results i have plugin: #ls -al /usr/lib/nessus/plugins/nmap.nasl -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 17510 Feb 18 09:03 /usr/lib/nessus/plugins/nmap.nasl also: scanner scan # cat /etc/nessus/nessusd.conf |grep default # 'default' means that Nessus will scan ports found in its port_range = default nmap is working (from command line). No related errors in logs file. I use nessusd 2.2.6. Why nmap (or any other scanner) is not used ? Thanx _______________________________________________ Nessus mailing list [email protected] http://mail.nessus.org/mailman/listinfo/nessus _______________________________________________ Nessus mailing list [email protected] http://mail.nessus.org/mailman/listinfo/nessus
