Configuration file "resets"

I need to exclude a list of systems as being valid targets. They should
never be scanned (they're tarpits). I found the following when searching for
how to configure nessus for this. The only problem is nessus wipes the
configuration every time it is run. Is this dated? Or am I missing
something? I'm using nessus 3.0.2 and scanning with the commandline client
in batch. The configuration file is specified using -c.


> On Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 12:31:20PM -0500, John McCain wrote:
> > If one is using a host list file as the target for nessus, and one would
> > like to scan a class B network, but exclude 5 or 6 hosts, how might one
> > accomplish this?
>
> Assuming you want to exclude, say, 192.168.1.3 and 192.168.1.123 from
> testing, you'd edit /usr/local/etc/nessus/nessusd.rules [*] and write in
it :
> deny 192.168.1.3
> deny 192.168.1.123
> default accept
>
> [*] Or /usr/local/var/nessus/users/<yourlogin>/rules or
>    ~/.nessusrc in the "RULES" section



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