Isn't open source GREAT? Mike
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Peter Akre Sent: Friday, March 01, 2002 4:10 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: html_output problems Understood, and thanks for the reply. I think I was able to get around it by hacking the html_graph_output.c to delete the file before creating the dir. Seems to work in my specific case, but I understand why it is not that way by default. Peter Akre On Fri, 2002-03-01 at 13:20, John Q. Public wrote: > On 1 Mar 2002, Peter Akre wrote: > > |To All: > | > |Is there a way to tell the command line nessus to force an overwrite of > |a file when using html_graph option? For example I have a temporary file > |called 297.out with 0 bytes. I run and html_graph scan and tell it to > |output to a dir called 297.out and when the scan is complete it just > |says "File exists" and does not overwrite the file with the dir. The > |straight html option will overwrite the file. Don't ask why, but I need > |to do it this way. Any suggestions appreciated. > > There's isn't much that will overwrite a file of the same name with a > directory. I suppose the logic could be put in, but then we'd have the added > functionality of nessus stepping over all kinds of things and pissing people > off.
