I solved Justin's request. I had written a script (which I personally used) and sent it to him. My scirpt takes an input file which has a list of plugin id's (1 plugin per line), and takes a nessusrc file and then updates that rc file by only turning on those desired plugins. It is useful if you need to have more than 1 nessusrc file (such is the case with different tests for windows and unix machines) for your nessus batch job. I believe this is what he was looking for.

I don't know if update-nessusrc does it like this (takes a plugin list file and a nessusrc file and either updates that nessusrc file or writes it as some other nessusrc file eg. nessusrc.unix ). I wrote it before I found out about update-nessusrc.

If anyone needs something like this, let me know and I will gladly send it your way.

Thanks,
Anthony G Persaud 
Cargill IT Services 
Information Protection Group