Rich Whitcroft wrote:
> An example of this is the "Log details of the scan on the server" 
> checkbox in the Options tab of the nessus client. Due to the volume of 
> scans we'll be doing, as well as the log verbosity, I don't want to log 
> every launched/not-launched nasl for every target host -- the log gets 
> ridiculously large very quickly.
>
> ...
> The problem I see 
> here is that I don't want nessus client users (sysadmins) to be able to 
> check the "Log details of the scan on the server" (for example) and fill 
> up my logs.
>   
Why don't you just set a script to clean the area out every night?

e.g.

find /opt/nessus/var/nessus/users/ -name kbs - exec rm -rf {} \;

You could add exclusions around that, move to another area, 
delete-if-older-than - all sorts of things...

-- 
Cheers

Jason Haar
Information Security Manager, Trimble Navigation Ltd.
Phone: +64 3 9635 377 Fax: +64 3 9635 417
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