Re: Interacting with running nessus scans

On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 09:15:54AM -0600, Schneider, Jake wrote:

> I am looking for a way to interactively stop nessus scans that are
> started via the command line and not with the client GUI.  Currently
> when I kill the process, nessus will not dump the data it has already
> gathered to an output file, it will just exit and the data is lost. 
> This functionality is desired because I scan very large networks and
> sometimes I need to see some immediate results.

Make sure you're enabling session saving; eg, "save_session = yes" in a
client config. Session data include information about a scan's progress
as well as any results and are written to a time-stamped file under
/usr/local/var/nessus/users/$user/sessions; eg, 20051130-112815-data.
Further, you don't need to kill off a scan to monitor a scan's results
since nessusd writes to the data file as the scan takes place.


George
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