cron job "nreset" fires at 1201 AM remove "/var/tmp/nessusUpdated" file if it exists ---
cron job "nupdate" fires at minute 5 every hour and implements this "logic" if "/var/tmp/nessusUpdated" file exists, exit if more than one nessusd process active exit create "/var/tmp/nessusUpdated" file nessus-update-plugins --- Regards, -Mike Slifcak -----Original Message----- From: Alec H. Peterson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2002 9:54 AM To: Michael Slifcak Subject: RE: nessusd behaving badly --On Thursday, September 19, 2002 9:53 -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Perhaps. If you scan during the time that the cron job > update the plugins, your scan results are probably not good. Hrm, that's not good, since scans can take a while... So do I need to just update the plugins manually or something? Alec -- Alec H. Peterson -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Chief Technology Officer Catbird Networks, http://www.catbird.com - [EMAIL PROTECTED]: general discussions about Nessus. * To unsubscribe, send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe nessus" in the body.
