hi, please check your verbosity level within nessus and i would look into using cron for or some other daemon for log rotation.
On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 3:00 PM, Rich Whitcroft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I can't find any facility to control the size/content of > nessusd.messages. I just ran a scan on a /24 subnet and was seeing log > file growth of 1 meg per second. The entire scan lasted 570 seconds, so > about 600 megs of logs for one subnet. Also, much of the log file > contained entries like this > > [Tue May 27 14:34:19 2008][5455] user operator : Not launching > debian_DSA-829.nasl against 129.100.86.73 because the key > Host/Debian/dpkg-l is missing (this is not an error) > > which seems a little too verbose since these messages are insignificant. > > I have log_whole_attack and log_plugins_name_at_load set to 'no'. > > Can I control these settings somewhere? It would be nice to avoid having > to set logfile = /dev/null. > _______________________________________________ > Nessus mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.nessus.org/mailman/listinfo/nessus > -- --Yarick Tsagoyko Advisory Notice: Email is covered by the Electronic Communications Privacy Act and is legally privileged, but inherently insecure. Content may be subject to alteration: email addresses may incorrectly identify the sender. This email transmission, and any documents, files, or previous email messages attached to it may be privileged and confidential, and are intended only for the use of the recipient(s) named in the address field. If the reader of this message is not an intended recipient, or the employee or agent responsible to deliver it to the recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution, or copying of this message or its contents is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please notify me by telephone or return email and delete it and any attachments from your computer. Thank you.
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