Hello Ron,
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.
rgula at tenablesecurity wrote:
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.
I entered that command in that directory on Marc 17th, and almost every single
plugin file is dated 2008-01-02. The last few files are:
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 66480 2007-06-26 11:52 find_service.nes
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 35648 2007-06-26 11:52 nessus_tcp_scanner.nes
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 8998 2007-06-26 11:52 ssl_ciphers.nes
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 16609 2007-06-26 11:52 synscan.nes
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 75776 2007-05-04 09:20
compliance_check_windows_file_content.nbin
Is this normal? I have been online several times with the Nessus service
running this month (March 2008). Shouldn't the files date from then and not
last January and last year? It doesn't seem that the auto-update is working
even though I registered.
How can I force an update? Thank you for your time.
Doug
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