Re: manually update plugins problem

On Thu, Dec 22, 2005 at 02:01:47PM +0800, Rick L.Y. Eagles wrote:

> I run Nessus 2.0.10 on my Red Hat 8.0 box ( I know my Nessus is very
> old, but it works fine and enough for me).

Nessus 2.0.10 is no longer supported; please upgrade.

> Recently I want to scan some RHES boxes and I download
> nessus-plugins-2.2.6.tar.gz from nessus.org, extract plugins like
> redhat-RHSA-200x-xxx.nasl and manually put them in
> /usr/local/lib/nessus/plugins, 

There's no file named nessus-plugins-2.2.6.tar.gz on nessus.org. There
is one named nessus-plugins-GPL-2.2.6.tar.gz, but that only contains
plugins in the GPL feed, and the RedHat local security checks
(redhat-RHSA-2000*.nasl) are not part of that.

> but when I restart nessusd, I can not
> find them in my nessus client.
>
> nessus.messages show all these plugins have been loaded, but in
> /usr/local/lib/nessus/plugins/.desc I can not find these new added
> plugins, what's wrong?

It's hard to say...

- If you're truly downloading nessus-plugins-GPL-2.2.6.tar.gz, they're
not included. And while some were included as part of your 2.0.10
install, those released in the past 1.5 - 2 years are not.

- If you have a registered / direct feed and are manually downloading
plugin updates, it may very well be an issue with the older version of
Nessus that you're using. In that case, I'd be happy to help once you
upgrade to 2.2.4 or later.


George
-- 
theall@tenablesecurity.com
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