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


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