George- Thanks for the heads up, I believe that this is what i am looking for. I'm going to download and play around, if something comes of it I will let you know.
Thanks again ashby On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 3:01 PM, George A. Theall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Nov 17, 2008, at 9:05 AM, christopher ashby wrote: > >> Was just wondering how everyone manages there plug-in subscriptions, >> more specifically what plug-ins were updated, added, and or removed >> (if applicable). I would like to receive a daily report either >> automatically created which would inform me of all the updates that >> have been applied to existing plug-ins, and any new ones that have >> been downloaded from the repo. > > Several years ago I developed a Perl script that you might be > interested in. It's not a Tenable product, though. And it requires a > bit of setup, although nothing that a reasonably good sysadmin or > Perl programmer should have difficulty with. The script is called > update-nessus-plugins, and works as a wrapper around the script nessus- > update-plugins that's included with Nessus. It offers options for > backing up the plugins tarball prior to running an update as well as > summarizing changes in the plugins, as context diffs when possible. > The script is free and should run on most any sort of *nix system. You > will need another of my scripts (describe-nessus-plugin) and to > configure plugin updates to operate through cron rather than the > Nessus server directly. For more info, look at > http://www.tifaware.com/perl/update-nessus-plugins/ > . > > George > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > _______________________________________________ > Nessus mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.nessus.org/mailman/listinfo/nessus > _______________________________________________ Nessus mailing list [email protected] http://mail.nessus.org/mailman/listinfo/nessus
