On Mon, Jul 21, 2003 at 02:43:48PM +0200, Marco Alberoni wrote: > I've configured Nessus to do "constant scanning" (detached continuous > scan), but it send me an (empty) email every time a scan is performed, > not only when a new alarm is found!
I think it's a bug and I've just submitted a bug report (ie, see <http://bugs.nessus.org/show_bug.cgi?id=501>). Basically, Nessus attempts to avoid sending blank emails by comparing the size of a scratch file after writing mail headers but before writing results and then after writing results. The trouble, though, is that the stream is not flushed before calculating the initial size; this causes the initial size to be zero, which is inaccurate. Afterwards, after the file has been closed, it will be accurate and reflect the size of the message headers, even if no results were written. George -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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