I have exactly the same problem as Jared. The problem has been around for
a while and certainly was there in version 2.2.2a
Peter Heard
-----Original Message-----
From: Jared Breland [mailto:list-nessus@legroom.net]
Sent: February 22, 2005 7:10 AM
To: nessus@list.nessus.org
Subject: Re: find_service.nes hanging on 2.2.3 linux
I'm having this same problem. I kicked off a scan of a /24 subnet yesterday
evening, and all but two were finished by 10:41 last night (according to the
log). However, two servers were still being scanned as of 9:00am this
morning, both were running find_service.nes, and both were hung. I killed
the PID for both find_service.nes process, and the scan quickly finished.
Anyone know what's causing this? Thanks.
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Jared
on 2/21/2005 5:43 AM Matthew Romanek said the following:
Hey all..
I've been digging for this in the archives, but I can't find anything
current and relevent. Feel free to point me at the answer if this has
come up before..
I'm scanning multiple /24s, and every now and then, on fairly
populated networks, nessus will hang on one or more hosts. WHICH hosts
seem to change, and I haven't gotten it to happen on the same host
twice, even though I've reproduced the problem several times by
scanning dense networks.
Each time it happens, a ps shows two processes for one or more hosts,
several hours after all the other hosts are apparently done. One is
always find_service.nes, and the second one varies. Through
experimentation, I've learned that I can kill -9 the process for
find_service.nes and that host will take off, run through the other
plugins, and finish happily as if nothing happened.
I don't see anything in the dump or message files that would indicate
a problem. I tried changing the timeout for the plugin, which didn't
help, nor did reducing the scans to 10 tests and 15 hosts at a time.
For a short-term fix, I've disabled that plugin, but if I could figure
out why it's hanging in the first place, I'd feel better about it.
Any ideas would be welcomed.
Thanks!
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