Doug V wrote: > 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. >
Hi Doug, It looks like your registration process either never happened, had an error, is being prevented by a proxy or some other reason. When you get an update, the NASLs won't necessarily have today's date on them, but they won't be as old as 2008-01-02 either. I suggest re-registering and paying close attention to any logs or error messages to see what the issue is. Ron Gula Tenable Network Security _______________________________________________ Nessus mailing list [email protected] http://mail.nessus.org/mailman/listinfo/nessus
