Re: nessus-update-plugins failing

On Jul 14, 2006, at 6:06 PM, Eleanor Blair wrote:

> I too am having trouble with nessus-update-plugins failing, running
> version 2.2.6 of Nessus.  I've got it running from cron once a day at
> about 8pm local time (GMT +0100), and it has only succeeded once in  
> the
> last few weeks - on Sunday 9th if that makes any difference.  I've
> turned on the -vv option to try and get more detail, but it doesn't  
> help
> much.
>
> Sometimes it fails at this stage:
>
> + /usr/local/bin/nessus-fetch --plugins-md5
>
> More often at this stage:
>
> + /usr/local/bin/nessus-fetch --plugins
> [22570] plug_set_key:internal_send(0)['3 /tmp/ConnectTimeout/TCP/ 
> 443=1;

It looks like you can't connect to plugins.nessus.org -- do you have  
a firewall in place blocking its access ? (Note that  
plugins.nessus.org has changed IP addresses a few weeks ago, so if  
you have strict, IP-based firewall-rules, then you need to update them).


                            -- Renaud
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