On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 12:04:49AM +0100, Renaud Deraison wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 10:06:32PM +0100, Anders Bandholm wrote:
> > I used to find them there, but in my 1.2.7 they do not appear at that
> > place - only "LaBrea" and "ping" appear in the list of port-scanners
> > in the [Scan options] tab. The 3 "real" port-scanners only appear in the
> > list of plugins in the "Port scanners" category.
> 
> I suspect that you did not recompile the plugins when switching from
> 1.2.6 to 1.2.7 (or anything else - you had old includes lying around or
> whatever), or maybe you've been playing with Nessus 1.3.x and then went
> back to 1.2.x.
> 
> The thing is that the constant ACT_SCANNERS has changed internally
> between two releases, and if you compiled the plugins with an older
> version of the includes, then nessusd won't recognize the plugins as
> port-scanners per-se, but probably as ACT_INIT plugins.

Thank you Renaud -- you were absolutely right!

I had the 1.2.5 stuff installed while I built the 1.2.7, and forgot to
install the new libs/headers before proceeding with the next component.
Shame on me. 

Building + installing all in the right order corrected the problem.

Thanks a lot!

Cheers,
Anders
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