Re: 3.02 plugin updates not working ?

On Thu, 25 May 2006, Ricardo Stella wrote:

> My previous message never made it to the list - I don't see it on the
> archives either...
>
> I don't see my setup trying to update the plugins - When nessusd starts
> it outputs in nessusd.messages that it will update plugins every 24
> hours, but there's not mentioning later that that's the case.

Take a look at:
http://mail.nessus.org/pipermail/nessus/2006-May/msg00067.html
Was Renaud's response helpful?

> Also, if a new plugin was released, how would I know that I do actually
> have it ?

One way might be to use George Theall's update-nessus-plugins script
(http://www.tifaware.com/code/update-nessus-plugins/update-nessus-plugins)
In that case make sure to disable automatic updates 
("auto_update = no" in nessusd.conf). You could then run the script from a cron
job with the "-s" option (for summary) and mail the results to yourself.

> Finally, I would appreciate a nessus-update-plugins option to check for
> updates but do nothing.

Sounds like a good idea. I don't know if Tenable will update the script, but 
you could write a simple shell script to do this. Something like the following:

#!/bin/sh
Plugins="/opt/nessus/lib/nessus/plugins"; #v 3.0.2
rm all-2.0.tar.gz.md5;
nessus-fetch --plugins-md5
a=`cut -d " " -f 4 all-2.0.tar.gz.md5`
b=`cut -d " " -f 4 $Plugins/MD5`
if [ "$a" = "$b" ];
  then
  echo Plugins up to date
else
  echo New plugins available
fi

--
 - Josh
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