Mailing List Archive: Idea: plugin file names are id.nasl

Idea: plugin file names are id.nasl

Jan 9, 2003, 3:52 AM

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Hi,

Just thought that it would make my life easier if plugins were named as
id.nasl (or .nes). The current setup is that plugins essentially have
three separate primary keys - ID, name and filename. There's no point in
the filename primary key - it's a pain to choose a unique file name, and
it's a pain to find the filename based on ID. Really, the name shouldn't
be treated as a primary key (nessusd does this internally), but that's a
side issue as the name definitily should be unique.

Thoughts?

Paul

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Re: Idea: plugin file names are id.nasl [ In reply to ]

hdm at digitaloffense

Jan 9, 2003, 3:57 AM

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On Thursday 09 January 2003 04:52, Paul Johnston wrote:
> and it's a pain to find the filename based on ID. Really, the name
> shouldn't be treated as a primary key (nessusd does this internally),
> but that's a side issue as the name definitily should be unique.

$ grep script_id\(12345 *.nasl

It would be a pain to find a plugin whose name was just its its ID too.
When dealing with a huge directory of 1000+ plugins, I like being able to
get an idea what each one does just by glancing at it's name. Its easy to
see which plugins do SMB checks, which ones test a given application,
etc..

-HD

Re: Idea: plugin file names are id.nasl [ In reply to ]

peak at argo

Jan 9, 2003, 9:57 AM

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On Thu, 9 Jan 2003, H D Moore wrote:

> $ grep script_id\(12345 *.nasl

Been there, done that, found it quite annoying when the number of
plugins I needed to examine exceeded 20 or so in a day.
Moreover, it does not work on non-NASL plugins.

> It would be a pain to find a plugin whose name was just its its ID too.

What about 12345_plugin_xyz.nasl (or ...nes etc.)?

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