nessus-update-plugins problem

George Theall theall at tifaware.com
Wed Feb 4 10:42:17 EST 2004


On Wed, Feb 04, 2004 at 09:00:59AM -0600, Halverson, Chris wrote:

>    some ideas.  This is a fresh install of FreeBSD 5.1, Nessus works
>    great, but when I try to run nessus-update-plugins I get an error
>    saying it fails uncompressing the archive.
...
>    -su-2.05b# nessus-update-plugins -vv
...
>    + wget http://www.nessus.org/nasl/all-2.0.tar.gz

This isn't right.  The args used with wget should be "-q -o -".  To fix
this, edit nessus-update-plugins and define fetch_args as "-q -o -". 

Is that the way the script was distributed originally?


George
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