Hi,

I am sure just sending Nessus a HUP is not quite enough for updating
the plugins. I've updated the plugins, done a HUP, and had weird
inconsistencies


What kind of inconsistencies?


Two problems were encountered:

1) Some hosts would not get scanned. There were hosts with no/obscure open ports. There's a message in nessusd.messages that "host is down, skipping" and no knowledge base file is created.

2) Some HTTP vulnerabilities were missed. I didn't do a detailed post mortem.

This happened repeatably (at least 3 times) on a plugins update and problems went away with a stop and start.

I understand that a HUP is supposed to be enough, but this really happened!

Paul

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