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Re: Scan aborting w/o log entry

Subject: Re: Scan aborting w/o log entry
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 14:19:06 -0400
On Tue, Sep 20, 2005 at 01:53:46PM -0400, mike.sleeper@srs.gov wrote:

Daily command line scans stopped working yesterday and I can find no
entries that reference any problems.  This is a scripted process and the
only change (that I can think of or find) would be the plugins.  
...
I suspect I've apparently screwed something up, but I cannot figure out
what it is.   Any suggestions on what else I can look for?

Try following the nessusd and its child processes with strace while
launching a scan.

Alternatively, it might be useful to reconfigure nessusd to not use SSL
for communications (ie, set "ssl_version = NONE" in the client and
server configs, restart server) and trace the NTP messages sent to the
client.

nessusd.messages
====================
...
/usr/local/var/nessus/users/USERNAME/sessions/20050920-124431-index
........ repeated for each attempt (command line or gui with gui showing
the actual IP address) ......

Do you see anything like:

  user USERNAME starts a new scan...
  user USERNAME restores a session...


George
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