Ron Gula wrote: > 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, One more thing -- what is in the contents of your plugin_feed_info.inc file? Ron Gula Tenable Network Security _______________________________________________ Nessus mailing list [email protected] http://mail.nessus.org/mailman/listinfo/nessus
