Isolating the plugin

[Renaud Deraison]

On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 04:49:58PM +0530, A. Supreeth Reddy wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> 	I have a setup where I am running the nessus in verbose mode
> with the commandline option with DoS tests enabled. My system is
> crashing while I run the tests. I want to isolate which test is exactly
> crashing my system. I have the following problems :
> 
> 	1. I don't see logs about which plugins are used appearing in
> nessusd.messages. I see only this
> 	I am running nessusd on RedHat Linux and my client is also on
> the same box.

Edit your .nessusrc and set "log_whole_attack" to "yes".

> 	2. The html output doesn't contain any reference to the PlugIn
> that was running while the crash occurred.
> 
> 	3. If I want to run just one test, for eg, only plugin ID 10017,
> how do I do that ? because when I modify the $HOME/.nessusrc to have
> only one test, even then, the .nessusrc is update with all the tests by
> nessus automagically.

Use george theall's update-nessusrc (see http://www.nessus.org/related/)



				-- Renaud