Hello, As far as I can tell from a quick glance at the code Felix is correct, the pluginscheduler does not care about categories (ACT_*) when scheduling.
I guess this is the result of a decision in pre-OpenVAS times that dependencies have a greater priority than categories. Apart from Thomas mail I have not heard of this causing problems, so I would be interested in a reproducible scenario for this. As Felix said, deciding between dependencies and categories is not simple, I could see both choices having their advantages and drawbacks, but I also interested in opinions on this, especially from the NVT developers perspective. Regards, Michael * Felix Wolfsteller [13. Sep 2012]: > 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 -- Michael Wiegand | Greenbone Networks GmbH | http://www.greenbone.net/ Neuer Graben 17, 49074 Osnabrück, Germany | AG Osnabrück, HR B 202460 Executive Directors: Lukas Grunwald, Dr. Jan-Oliver Wagner _______________________________________________ Openvas-devel mailing list Openvas-devel@wald.intevation.org http://lists.wald.intevation.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openvas-devel
