RE: Running Nessus in Batch Mode

Make sure nessusd is running and listening ..

nessusd -D

then

nessus -c pathtoconfig/.nessusrc -T nbe -qx localhost 1241 nessususer
"password" file.txt output.nbe

where file.txt is the host/network you want to scan 

that seems to work for me ..

reading the man pages tells you what you need to know .. just:

man nessus

-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Smith [mailto:steve.smithp@gmail.com]
Sent: Tue 8/23/2005 9:15 AM
To: nessus@list.nessus.org
Subject: Running Nessus in Batch Mode
 
Hello,

I was wondering if there was documenation posted on how to run Nessus
in the command shell (I believe this is called, Batch Mode)

I've searched the net and have found very little in terms of procedures.

My goal is to run Nessus without using the GUI.    

Currently,  I'm running the following command:

# ./nessus localhost 1241 userid userpass target.txt

This command does not run nessus and instead pop's up the help file
for nessus.

I am running version 2.2.5

Thanks!
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