Do all the syncs, restart the openvas-scanner which reloads the NVT cache and 
after that you do an openvasmd —rebuild (with running scanner). If there are no 
new NVTs you don’t need to restart the scanner or rebuild the database.

> Am 18.02.2016 um 14:58 schrieb fbrand . <[email protected]>:
> 
> I last did an NVT update with the install on 15 Jan'16. 
> When I did a sync via the GSA for NVT yesterday it only stayed on the same 
> amount. 
> Ran openvas-nvt-sync and restarted both openvas services, but still the same 
> number.
> My signatures are in place.
> I did some reading and somebody suggested to stop the scanner while update is 
> running, tried that and still nothing.
> Another said to do a openvasmd --rebuild after the sync, and that seemed to 
> have done the trick. My NVT's are now on 45841.
> 
> What I'd like to know is this how it should work as I've gone through the 
> manuals and I'm sure it didn't mention it.
> I want to use crontab to do regular updates of NVT's, but then there should 
> be something extra to do the rebuild also? And shouldn't the SCAP and CERT 
> data also be included in this cron job?
> 
> Thank you for the assistance
> 
> Kind Regards,
> Fred
> 
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