Mailing List Archive: "could not load " error with nasl.exe -k

"could not load <filename>" error with nasl.exe -k

Dec 18, 2006, 12:48 PM

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I am attempting to debug a script with nasl.exe from the Nessus
3.0.4release. I'm attempting typing the following commands from a
cmd.exe session "nasl.exe -k <pathtomyscript>/scriptname" but I am getting
the error "Could not load <pathtomyscript>/scriptname". I had it work once,
but unfortunately that was last week and I dont' remember what I was doing
differently that it loaded and gave me an error about one of the lins. Any
help much appreciated.

- Nathan

Re: "could not load <filename>" error with nasl.exe -k [ In reply to ]

deraison at nessus

Dec 18, 2006, 2:51 PM

Post #2 of 3 (2125 views)

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On Dec 18, 2006, at 9:48 PM, shadow cipher wrote:

> I am attempting to debug a script with nasl.exe from the Nessus
> 3.0.4 release. I'm attempting typing the following commands from a
> cmd.exe session "nasl.exe -k <pathtomyscript>/scriptname" but I am
> getting the error "Could not load <pathtomyscript>/scriptname". I
> had it work once, but unfortunately that was last week and I dont'
> remember what I was doing differently that it loaded and gave me an
> error about one of the lins. Any help much appreciated.

nasl.exe does a chdir to C:\Program Files\Tenable\Nessus\plugins
\scripts before execution. So put your script in that directory, and
do 'nasl.exe scriptname'

-- Renaud
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Re: "could not load <filename>" error with nasl.exe -k [ In reply to ]

shadow.cipher at gmail

Dec 19, 2006, 6:21 AM

Post #3 of 3 (2119 views)

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I finally fixed this. The root issue was that I had a syntax error in the
description portion of my script. Would be nice if the interpreter kicked
out an error statement about why it couldn't load the file.

N.

On 12/18/06, shadow cipher <shadow.cipher@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I am attempting to debug a script with nasl.exe from the Nessus 3.0.4release. I'm attempting typing the following commands from a
> cmd.exe session "nasl.exe -k <pathtomyscript>/scriptname" but I am getting
> the error "Could not load <pathtomyscript>/scriptname". I had it work once,
> but unfortunately that was last week and I dont' remember what I was doing
> differently that it loaded and gave me an error about one of the lins. Any
> help much appreciated.
>
> - Nathan
>