Hi George,
Thanks for the quick reply.
Looks like a bug (in nessus-libraries/libnessus/popen.c) --
HP/UX doesn't support setting hard limits for the process
data segment or stack to RLIM_INFINITY; eg,
<http://docs.hp.com/en/B2355-60105/getrlimit.2.html>.
Can I fill a bug report?????
For the most part, your scans should still run, but since
the calls failed to adjust the limits of those two
resources, you may face trouble when launching external
programs (like nmap).
Yes, you are correct. On the first time, I ran nessus from commadline,
scanning was sucessful. I wanted to test the nmap scanning option, So
I started Nessus in GUI, disabled all plugins, except nmap.nasl. And I
got only this message in my hmtl report "No noticeable information found".
The nessus.dump file shows that nmap.nasl failed
The contents of nessus.dump is:
"RLIMIT_DATA: Invalid argument
RLIMIT_STACK: Invalid argument
[4579](/opt/iexpress/nessus/lib/nessus/plugins/nmap.nasl) fread:
stat(/opt/iexpress/nessus/var/nessus/tmp/nmap-172.16.1.156-533916632): No such
file or directory
[4579](/opt/iexpress/nessus/lib/nessus/plugins/nmap.nasl)
unlink(/opt/iexpress/nessus/var/nessus/tmp/nmap-172.16.1.156-533916632): No
such file or directory
sh: sysctl: not found."
I could not find any files under the /opt/iexpress/nessus/var/nessus/tmp
directory.
The details in the nessus.message file:
"[Mon Mar 28 12:48:56 2005][29759] user ses starts a new scan. Target(s) :
172.16.1.156, with max_hosts = 20 and max_checks = 4
[Mon Mar 28 12:48:56 2005][29759] user ses : testing 172.16.1.156
(172.16.1.156) [4577]
[Mon Mar 28 12:48:56 2005][4577] user ses : launching ping_host.nasl against
172.16.1.156 [4578]
[Mon Mar 28 12:48:56 2005][4577] ping_host.nasl (process 4578) finished its job
in 0.017 seconds
[Mon Mar 28 12:48:56 2005][4577] user ses : launching nmap.nasl against
172.16.1.156 [4579]
[Mon Mar 28 12:48:57 2005][4577] nmap.nasl (process 4579) finished its job in
0.477 seconds
[Mon Mar 28 12:48:57 2005][4577] user ses : launching nessus_tcp_scanner.nes
against 172.16.1.156 [4584]
[Mon Mar 28 12:48:58 2005][24646] connection from 172.16.1.156
[Mon Mar 28 12:49:04 2005][4577] nessus_tcp_scanner.nes (process 4584) finished
its job in 6.908 seconds
[Mon Mar 28 12:49:04 2005][4577] Finished testing 172.16.1.156. Time : 7.65 secs
[Mon Mar 28 12:49:04 2005][29759] user ses : test complete
[Mon Mar 28 12:49:04 2005][29759] user ses : Kept alive connection
[Mon Mar 28 12:49:39 2005][29759] Communication closed by client"
It shows that nmap scanning was done. I am really confused. Can you help me on
this regard?.
Can I disable this macro and rebuild Nessus.
Looking to hear from You,
--
Senthil Prabu.S
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