Hello Ron, Doug V wrote: >> I am using Fedora 8 with the latest non-beta versions of Nessus and the >> Nessus Client installed. I was wondering if there was a command that I could >> run to force Nessus to update its plugins or to show the date of the last >> update. When I run /opt/nessus/bin/nessus-fetch --check I do get the >> "nessus-fetch is properly configured to receive a Registered feed" response, >> and in nessusd.conf the auto_update option is set to "yes", but I would like >> to verify myself that the latest plugins are installed.
rgula at tenablesecurity wrote: >If you are on Linux, you can always do an ls -lt | more while in the >/opt/nessus/lib/nessus/plugins directory and look at the time on the last >file. This should give you some indication of when the last update was. I entered that command in that directory on Marc 17th, and almost every single plugin file is dated 2008-01-02. The last few files are: -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 66480 2007-06-26 11:52 find_service.nes -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 35648 2007-06-26 11:52 nessus_tcp_scanner.nes -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 8998 2007-06-26 11:52 ssl_ciphers.nes -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 16609 2007-06-26 11:52 synscan.nes -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 75776 2007-05-04 09:20 compliance_check_windows_file_content.nbin Is this normal? I have been online several times with the Nessus service running this month (March 2008). Shouldn't the files date from then and not last January and last year? It doesn't seem that the auto-update is working even though I registered. How can I force an update? Thank you for your time. Doug _________________________________________________________________ Climb to the top of the charts! Play the word scramble challenge with star power. http://club.live.com/star_shuffle.aspx?icid=starshuffle_wlmailtextlink_jan _______________________________________________ Nessus mailing list [email protected] http://mail.nessus.org/mailman/listinfo/nessus
