Yeah, but I want to automate everything (except for reviewing the 
results).  So I doing everything on the cmd line.  So I'm doing 
something like

/opt/nessus/bin/nessus -T nessus -xq localhost 1241 admin secret  
/tmp/targets.txt /tmp/report.nessus

And it doesn't handle hypens in /tmp/targets.txt. At least I haven't 
been able to convince it to do so.

/tmp/targets.txt is generated from a script.

John

Ron Gula wrote:
> John Gray wrote:
>   
>> One issue that I've run into with something like this, is that I can't 
>> find a way escape hyphens in host names in the target list to nesses.  
>> So the names with hyphens are interpreted as ranges.
>>
>> I see I can build a .nessus file that'll handle the issue.  But its a 
>> lot more work to build the .nessus file from my host list.  One could 
>> just use IPs, except I'm scanning some named virtual hosts, which 
>> require using the name.
>>
>> I really want to have a cron job that runs at, say, 4 am, that does my 
>> scan.  And this is the hold up.
>>     
>
> The Nessus Client allows you to specify a file that contains hosts.
>
> Ron Gula
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