I asked about this a couple weeks ago, and Renaud provided some useful
insight.

What is happening here is that the download aborts before it completes,
so the downloaded MD5 hash doesn't match the actual digest of the
partial (truncated) archive file.  Renaud said that EVERYONE schedules
their downloads on the hour and on the half-hour, and that this
overloads the server.  He suggested trying a less-common schedule, like
2:53 or 1:19... you get the idea.

I followed his advice and saw about a 50% improvement.  I still get the
error occasionally, but not nearly so often.  (FYI, we purchased a
direct plugin feed, which made absolutely no difference with regard to
this error, so the $1200/year subscription doesn't buy you out of
competing with everyone else for bandwidth).

John Scherff

-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of I am WE4SEL
Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2005 3:51 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: nessus-update-plugins invalid signature

Hi,

what's your Nessus version? I had this once and had to upgrade.

Greetz
Chris

----- Original Message -----
From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2005 12:18 PM
Subject: nessus-update-plugins invalid signature


Hi,

I'm getting this every night, at about 03:30:

  all-2.0.sig is not the valid signature for all-2.0.tar.gz
  Aborting

Here's some debug. If you need anything more doing, please ask.

[EMAIL PROTECTED] nessus-update-plugins-31126]# ls -ld .
drwx------  2 root root 4096 Sep 15 03:23 .
[EMAIL PROTECTED] nessus-update-plugins-31126]# ls -l
total 3528
-rw-------  1 root root    1025 Sep 15 03:23 all-2.0.sig
-rw-------  1 root root 3598899 Sep 15 03:23 all-2.0.tar.gz
-rw-------  1 root root      56 Sep 15 03:15 all-2.0.tar.gz.md5
[EMAIL PROTECTED] nessus-update-plugins-31126]# md5sum all-2.0.tar.gz
1dc99abd5f46a02c298032cf9c40a043  all-2.0.tar.gz
[EMAIL PROTECTED] nessus-update-plugins-31126]# cat all-2.0.tar.gz.md5
MD5 (all-2.0.tar.gz) = a4ae78df132b21ff6673002103643e1f
[EMAIL PROTECTED] nessus-update-plugins-31126]# nessus-check-signature
all-2.0.tar.gz 
all-2.0.sig
all-2.0.sig is not the valid signature for all-2.0.tar.gz

Regards,

Paul

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