Hello, On Donnerstag, 25. März 2010, Jan-Oliver Wagner wrote: > we observed that running w3af_console will lead > to child process(es) that continue to scan while > the parent process ends. > > This makes it really hard to batch scans as > you have no chance at all to judge when the scan > is finished. > > Any trick known to prevent this behaviour? > Other people with the same problem out there?
this problem still causes a lot of trouble. For some web services w3af seems to get into a forever-loop. No chances to prevent/circumvent this behaviour? Perhaps w3af could have a timout-setting? Perhaps w3af_console could watch its input file and if that is removed, it terminates? Best Jan -- Dr. Jan-Oliver Wagner | ++49-541-335084-0 | http://www.greenbone.net/ Greenbone Networks GmbH, Neuer Graben 17, 49074 Osnabrück | AG Osnabrück, HR B 202460 Geschäftsführer: Lukas Grunwald, Dr. Jan-Oliver Wagner ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ W3af-develop mailing list W3af-develop@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/w3af-develop