On Wednesday 28 October 2009 16:30:04 Angelo Compagnucci wrote: > The problem was the client timeout. Nikto takes 1168 seconds to > complete, far more than the client timeout. > But the log shows only: > [Wed Oct 28 16:14:01 2009][30533] Stopping the whole test (requested by > client) Mmh, this message is not related to timeouts, but should come only if you press the "Stop" button on the window showing the scan progress (did you?).
> Without signalling an error. Unfortunately, besides the scanners log messages there is no way to tell whether a plugin gracefully exited at the moment. It is also unclear what happens to the child processes of the process that was running the nvt (e.g. I believe nikto survives when the process running nikto.nasl is killed). > I set the timeout to 1800 seconds to be sure that Nikto uses the time it > needs. Good that you were able to resolve the issue, but there should have been a message in the logs. If you can reproduce the behaviour (no results due to timeout, but no message in the logfiles), I would appreciate if you file a bug report at http://bugs.openvas.org. Please make sure that all options regarding logging in your openvas(s)d.conf are set to "yes". Thanks. -- felix -- Felix Wolfsteller | ++49 541 335083-783 | http://www.intevation.de/ PGP Key: 39DE0100 Intevation GmbH, Neuer Graben 17, 49074 Osnabrück | AG Osnabrück, HR B 18998 Geschäftsführer: Frank Koormann, Bernhard Reiter, Dr. Jan-Oliver Wagner _______________________________________________ Openvas-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.wald.intevation.org/mailman/listinfo/openvas-discuss
