Re: nessus-update-plugins

George A. Theall wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 03:19:03PM +0200, Miguel Gonz?lez Casta?os wrote:
>
>
> > I am using Debian unstable and I installed the Debian package nessus and
> > nessus-plugins. I tried to execute the command nessus-update-plugins but
> > the script reports that the nessus-fetch command is missing. Is there
> > anything that I am doing wrong?
>
>
> Javi will undoubtedly correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe
> nessus-fetch is part of the nessusd package in Debian unstable. Install
> that and you should be fine.

Correct, it does not make sense to install nessus-plugins (which 
provides 'nessus-update-plugins') in a system with no Nessus daemon 
(provided in the nessusd package which provides the 'nessus-fetch' 
code). Maybe the package should 'Recommend' nessusd... hmmm..

Also, note that nessus-fetch (and consequently nessus-update-plugins) 
modifies the configuration file for nessusd so it does not make sense 
to run it in a system that does _not_ have the daemon. You could still 
run nessus-update-plugins

> Install it from source; see <http://thc.org/thc-hydra/> to get started.

Yep. That's the only way to get it in Debian, as I've said in a 
previous mail, it has been removed from the archive due to licensing 
reasons.

Regards

Javier
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