I have gzip, gunzip, and tar in my path and all installed to /bin. When I run the update command two directories are created in /tmp, nessus-update-plugins-7853, and nessus-update-plugins-7870. The files contained within the two directories are 0 bytes in size. This must be the problem, but I don't know why the files are 0 bytes. I don't have a /tmp partition, but my root partition has plenty of free space - there is over a gig of free space.
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Mar 2 22:53 all-2.0.tar.gz Thanks, John On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 03:22:11PM -0500, John Hines wrote: > I just installed Nessus 2.0.1 on my RedHat 8.0 box. When I try to update the plugins by running nessus-update-plugins as root I get the following error after a long pause: > > ./nessus-update-plugins > Something went wrong when installing the plugins - uncompressing the plugins archive failed The error arises if the script can't find one of the plugins after uncompressing and untarring the distribution file. A separate check makes sure the distribution file was successfully retrieved so that's not your problem. > Maybe I'm missing the utility will uncompress the plugins? Do you have gzip or gzcat installed? If so, are they located where the script expects them to be (eg, 'grep "gzip=" /usr/local/sbin/nessus-update-plugins')? What about tar? Is that installed and in the path? And finally, any chance you ran out of disk space on $TEMPDIR or, if unset, /tmp? George -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] d ----- Original Message ----- From: "George A. Theall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "John Hines" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, March 03, 2003 4:59 PM Subject: Re: nessus-update-plugins not working
