Re: Help with Net::Nessus since upgrading to Nessus 3.0.2

Net::Nessus does not currently support notes.  It shouldn't be all that
hard to add it, I haven't looked at it.  One option may be to use the
ntp_client_accepts_notes preference.  Another option I once used to
solve this problem is to treat notes as info's.  It's kind of a kludge
but it worked for what I needed it to do.  For example I believe
something like this would work in Net::Nessus::Message about line 140:

    my $class = (ref($self) or $self);
    $class =~ s/^\b(Client|Server)\b/Message/;
    #####START ADDED
    $type =~ s/NOTE/INFO/;
    #####DONE WITH ADDED
    $class .= "::$type";
    $class->new($sock, $sender, $type, \@fields);

Doing this should let all the NOTEs come through as INFOs, and may be
good enough to get you through until Net::Nessus is updated (which is
hasn't been for a couple of years).

Hope this helps some,
Laters,
Dave King


Ricardo M. Stella wrote:
> I've recently upgraded our nessus server from 2.2.5 to 3.0.2.  But we've
> got now some incompatibilities when using Net::Nessus (actually we use a
> package Net::Nessus::ScanLite which depends on Net::Nessus).
>
> This is the error we are getting (apache mod-perl).
>
> Any ideas where to start and/or who to contact ?
>
> TIA...
>
> [Wed Apr 26 12:50:27 2006] [error] Can't locate object method "new" via
> package "Net::Nessus::Message::NOTE" (perhaps you forgot to load
> "Net::Nessus::Message::NOTE"?) at
> /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.5/Net/Nessus/Message.pm line 139,
> <DATA> line 283.\n
>
>
>
>   
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