On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 12:47:52PM +0000, Alex Sharaz wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> got a quick question.
>
> I want to create a "sanity check" link on one of my web pages so that
> when a user clicks on a link a nessus scan is performed of their ip address
> and once finished a web page displays the results of the scan. The idea is
> to generate an xml output file and use the nessus xslt template ( or
> something like it) to produce the final display.
>
> I' *think* I've figured out how to do most things from the nessus man page,
> but it would be better if,rather than saving the output in a temp file and
> then reading the file, I could redirect the nessus output to stdout whoich
> i could then apply the xslt transformation to
>
> Anyone know if you can do this sort of thing? the nessus client seems to
> expect a mandatory output file argument.
>
You can probably do :
nessus -T xml -q localhost 1241 login pass targets -
And it *should* issue data to stdout.
-- Renaud
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