In the command line parameters for the nessus client I am specifying a separate nessusrc file. I've also tried deleting ~/.nessusrc.
The option I believe you are talking about is ping_hosts in /etc/nessus/nessusd.conf. I've set it as yes or no (default is no in my config) to no avail. Is there any way to turn on verbose logging? I've strace'd a nessus scan but did not find anything that I consider to be useful. Also, neither nessusd.messages or nessusd.dump provides any useful information. Any other ideas? Thanks, Tony -----Original Message----- From: Xavier POLI [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 08, 2005 3:04 PM To: Tony Chang Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: No Output maybe looking at ~/.nessusrc, the lines about options for performing a ping to the target ... Tony Chang wrote: > Hey guys, > > I'm currently using nessus 2.2.3 on Linux, and I'm having kind of a > strange issue. > > When I initiate a remote IP scan, the scan always completes within a > few seconds and the output is always empty. > > Scan Details Hosts which were alive and responding during test 0 > > I assume the second line is the actual reason why there was no output, > but in this case I tried to initiate a scan on 127.0.0.1. I don't > think the problem is with nessusd necessarily, due to the following in > nessusd.messages: > > [Wed Jun 8 11:00:17 2005][1074] user scan starts a new scan. > Target(s) : 127.0.0.1, with max_hosts = 20 and max_checks = 4 [Wed Jun > 8 11:00:17 2005][1074] user scan : testing 127.0.0.1 > (127.0.0.1) [1075] [Wed Jun 8 11:00:17 2005][1074] user scan : > test complete [Wed Jun 8 11:00:17 2005][1074] user scan : Kept alive > connection > > This to me means that nessusd handled its part of the process > correctly, but the nessus client, due to some sort of health check > failing, determined that no attack scripts be executed on the host in > question. Am I wrong in my assumption, and has anyone else seen this > (hopefully fixed it)? > > Thanks, > > Tony _______________________________________________ Nessus mailing > list [email protected] > http://mail.nessus.org/mailman/listinfo/nessus > > _______________________________________________ Nessus mailing list [email protected] http://mail.nessus.org/mailman/listinfo/nessus
