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Re: nessus-update-plugins hanging

Subject: Re: nessus-update-plugins hanging
Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2006 16:31:47 -0400 (EDT)
On Mon, 24 Apr 2006, Allan zhang wrote:

The following is output on my server:

+ [ -z y ]
+ tar=-xvf
+ [ ! -d /usr/local/nessus/lib/nessus/plugins ]
+ pwd
+ cwd=/usr/local/nessus/sbin
+ tmpdir=
+ test -z
+ tmpdir=
+ test -z
+ tmpdir=/tmp
+ mkdir -m 0700 /tmp/nessus-update-plugins-33376
+ cd /tmp/nessus-update-plugins-33376
+ /usr/local/nessus/bin/nessus-fetch --plugins-md5
+ test -s /usr/local/nessus/lib/nessus/plugins/MD5
+ [ -x /usr/bin/diff ]
+ diff /usr/local/nessus/lib/nessus/plugins/MD5 all-2.0.tar.gz.md5
+ /usr/local/nessus/bin/nessus-fetch --plugins
...

IIRC correctly there were a number of issues regarding nessus-fetch and
SSL in nessus 2.2.3. The issues were fixed in 2.2.4. Like Kent said upgrading will probably resolve the problem.


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 - Josh
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