Hi, running nessus on freebsd 4.7, used -disable-gtk prefix when I built it because I do not want a gui, I will be using this from a command line only. Everything seems to work fine (including nmap scans of any type) except for some reason when I input the command line it is able to grab the target file with the ip for scanning but it fails with

unable to open /usr/directory/nessus1.out:no such file or directory

 

I am assuming that if /usr/directory/nessus1.out is the directory I want my results written to that nessus should create it. I have chmoded the directory 777, nessus is running as root, the proper user id and password are in the command line. I have even pointed the output file to the same directory as nessus without success.

 

Anybody have any ideas on how to fix this or what could be going on? It is the strangest thing I have ever seen. I can dynamically write the target files to the same directory without a problem. Even running nessus from the command line as root results in the same failure.

 

Here is the command line I use..

#usr/local/bin/nessus -q 127.0.0.1 1241 mynessususer mynessuspassword /usr/data/nessus/target_1 /usr/data/nessus/nessus_1.out -V -T nbe -c /urs/data/nessus/nessus.cfg

and what I've tried.....

I have changed 127.0.0.1 to localhost and to the machines ip, n luck

I have created other nessus users (no rules) without luck

Put in an ip instead of a target file, no luck

Changed output to text and html no luck

Removed the defined .cfg file to use the default, no luck

Ran the command from the /usr/local/bin directory with results to /usr/local/bin/nessus_.out file, no luck

Recompiled after cleanup with prefixes -disable-gtk -disable-crypto so as not to need password, no luck

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