On Dec 29, 2008, at 1:32 PM, Simon John wrote:
> Renaud Deraison wrote:
>
> [snip]
>> For your use case, you should use nessusd -t which performs a
>> checksum
>> on each plugin and only reprocesses those which changed. It's way
>> faster and should remove the pain.
>
> That does seem to be a lot faster thanks, however it never returns
> control to the console, you need to Ctrl-C it.
That's because 'nessusd -t' is similar to 'nessusd' in the sense that
it really starts the nessusd process and won't return.
Use nessusd -t -D to make it run in the background.
> A quick "strace nessusd -t" reveals that it sits there trying to
> bind to
> ipv6 or something - which I have disabled on my Linux install (and
> have
> enable_listen_ipv6=no in nessusd.conf) :
>
> open("/proc/net/if_inet6", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or
> directory)
Even though you disabled binding to ipv6, nessusd checks wether ipv6
is enabled -- you could have a nessusd daemon explicitely listening on
IPv4 only, but still want it to scan IPv6 targets.
-- Renaud
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