Iirc, years ago following was true (and I doubt it changed):
Dependencies can mess the "Phases" up. If a ACT_SCANNER would depend on 
something from ACT_DENIAL, the ACT_DENIAL one would go first.
The whole dependency-thing is indeed a hard (and interesting) problem to solve 
(but would be easy to detect).

--felix

Am Donnerstag 13 September 2012 00:02:45 schrieb Thomas Reinke:
> We're running into a hiccup with openvassd (rls 5) that I wouldn't
> mind getting some feedback on.
>
> After upgrading both scanner and scripts, and removing find_service.nes
> from the plugins directory so that there was no possibility of confusion
> with find_service.nasl and the built in find_service plugin, a look at
> the openvassd.messages log is showing that find_service.nasl is being
> launched BEFORE nmap.nasl.
>
> My understanding is that nmap.nasl, with a category of ACT_SCANNER,
> should ALWAYS execute before something like find_service.nasl, with
> a category of ACT_GATHER_INFO.
>
> Is there something I'm missing?  Shouldn't all ACT_SCANNER class
> scripts be COMPLETELY finished, regardless of user config, before
> other categories start firing up?  This is preventing find_service.nasl
> from working correctly.
>
> Thomas
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