Gabor, Those two are great packages, but they don't get a more frequent progressbar than that which is spit out by Nmap, which is problematic if you want to show it more "interactively" to the user.
BTW: 1) the first one has several bugs, for example it gets stuck as it waits for the IO which never comes :D - but it is easy to fix... just remove the $error join which is found in the Parser 2) the second one is synchronic only (doesn't support asynchronic), which is problematic On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 12:10 PM, Gabor Szabo<szab...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 10:59 AM, Noam Rathaus<no...@beyondsecurity.com> > wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I am trying to get nmap to be a bit more "friendly" by wrapping it >> inside a perl script that will cause it to spit out a status by >> "sending it a character": > > I don't know much about nmap but have you looked at either of the > following modules ? > > http://search.cpan.org/dist/Nmap-Scanner/ > http://search.cpan.org/dist/Nmap-Parser/ > > Gabor > http://www.perl.org.il/ > > _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il