Mailing List Archive: Problem with the lastest Nessus from CVS

Problem with the lastest Nessus from CVS

Feb 19, 2003, 4:33 AM

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(from a CVS checkout pulled ~1 hour ago)

Whenever I run an audit, it finishes very fast, but it's nearly empty.

Here's what I see in nessusd.log that could be related to this problem :

[Wed Feb 19 12:17:34 2003][31784] user shn : Not launching
nmap_wrapper.nes against 192.168.0.1 none of the required tcp ports are
open (this is not an error)

And in nessusd.dump I get the line :

Warning: scheduler_rm_running_ports failed ?! (ry self-reference (/./);3
Premature URL ending;4 Prepend long random string;5 Fake parameter;6 TAB
as request spacer;7 Random case s)

(This is on a Debian 3.0/i386, audit run via the GTK+ interface. The
exact same setup works fine with Nessus 1.3.4)

Any idea ?

Cordialement,

--
Vincent Renardias <vincent@strongholdnet.com>

Re: Problem with the lastest Nessus from CVS [ In reply to ]

deraison at nessus

Feb 19, 2003, 11:36 AM

Post #2 of 3 (604 views)

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On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 12:33:59PM +0100, Vincent Renardias wrote:
>
> (from a CVS checkout pulled ~1 hour ago)
>
> Whenever I run an audit, it finishes very fast, but it's nearly empty.

Try to delete your /usr/local/lib/nessus/plugins/.desc/ directory,
restart nessusd and try again.

Re: Problem with the lastest Nessus from CVS [ In reply to ]

vincent at strongholdnet

Feb 19, 2003, 12:12 PM

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On Wed, 2003-02-19 at 19:36, Renaud Deraison wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 12:33:59PM +0100, Vincent Renardias wrote:
> >
> > (from a CVS checkout pulled ~1 hour ago)
> >
> > Whenever I run an audit, it finishes very fast, but it's nearly empty.
>
> Try to delete your /usr/local/lib/nessus/plugins/.desc/ directory,
> restart nessusd and try again.

Indeed, it solved the problem.
Thanks!

NB: when should this directory be purged? At each nessusd restart? At
each plugin update? Both?

Cordialement,

--
Vincent Renardias <vincent@strongholdnet.com>