Re: Verifying latest plugins

Doug V wrote:
> I am using Fedora 8 with the latest non-beta versions of Nessus and the 
> Nessus Client installed. I was wondering if there was a command that I could 
> run to force Nessus to update its plugins or to show the date of the last 
> update. When I run /opt/nessus/bin/nessus-fetch --check I do get the 
> "nessus-fetch is properly configured to receive a Registered feed" response, 
> and in nessusd.conf the auto_update option is set to "yes", but I would like 
> to verify myself that the latest plugins are installed.

If you are on Linux, you can always do an

ls -lt | more while in the

/opt/nessus/lib/nessus/plugins

directory and look at the time on the last file. This should
give you some indication of when the last update was.

You could also do a plugins dump with the nessus tool and count the number
of plugins and see if it was more than the last time you updated:

[root@kingghidora bin]# ./nessus -p 127.0.0.1 1241 <user> <pass> | wc -l
20690


Ron Gula
Tenable Network Security


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