Nessus 3.0 Command line help

Renaud Deraison deraison at nessus.org
Thu Dec 15 16:28:14 EST 2005


On Dec 15, 2005, at 16:20, John Scherff wrote:

> Really?  The man page still says html is supported - at least in the
> form:
>
>    nessus -i report.nbe -o report.html
>
> But I tried it and, sure enough, nessus says "Unsupported report type
> 'html'.

Bug in the man page, sorry about that.


> Wow... that's a bit of a show-stopper for us.  2.2.6 not only supports
> -T (and -o) html, but also html_pie.  We use the nessus command-line
> client extensively to script the scanning, reporting, etc., on a  
> monthly
> basis.  Totally hands-off operation, except for the remediation piece.

What's preventing you from using NessusClient in command-line  
instead ? You can even compile it without X11 support.


					-- Renaud



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