Re: nessus_logfiles..?

On Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 10:05:07AM +0100, ruud van lee wrote:

> can anybody tell me how to run this 2 files..?i know
> that i'm in wrong directory..!what's the correct
> command line to run the file?
>
> [root@localhost lee]# ls /usr/local/var/nessus/logs
> nessusd.dump  nessusd.messages
> [root@localhost lee]# ./nessusd.dump

These are log files -- you browse them or search them rather than try to 
run them directly.

> anybody can tell me..what is nessusd.dump and
> nessusd.messages??

Typically, nessusd.messages will record when a user logs in and launches 
a scan as well as how a scan progresses; nessusd.dump will hold 
debugging and error output from the various plugins as they are run.

> another question, each time nessus finished the
> scanning jobs, user or admin itself wil determined the
> directory on where to saved the reports...rite??

The person running a particular client decides where reports are saved.

> isn't possible to direct the report automatically by
> nessus itself after it finished scanning.

No.


George
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