On Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 08:19:39AM -0600, George P Boutwell wrote: > Will the running scan use updated plugins that it already knew about when > it started. ie if the same plugin existed before the scan started, but was > updated after the scan started but before it had run that plugin, which > plugin would run the old one or the updated one?
The "snapshot" I mentioned earlier refers to a cache of the descriptive part of plugins. Other than that, nessusd opens the plugin and reads the contents whenever it's needed. Thus, if nessus-update-plugins tweaks the code in a plugin, the new version will be used even by currently-running scans. However, if the description part is altered (whether it's just the text description, a dependency, or something like that), those changes will not be made available to existing scans. > What about when a plugin is removed. What happens then to the running > scan if a plugin it knows about is removed before it gets to it? It will be skipped, and an error will be logged in nessusd.dump. George -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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