More OS X Issues--nessusd Doesn't Background, nessus Can't Connect

[Skeeter Murphy]

I have found that the client freezes for a while (couple minutes) then 
seems to work ok after that. You might have found some other problem 
though...

William 'Skeeter' Murphy, CISSP


On Wednesday, September 24, 2003, at 10:08  AM, Aaron Davies wrote:

> On Wednesday, September 24, 2003, at 10:59  AM, Renaud Deraison wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 01:25:13AM -0400, Aaron Davies wrote:
>>
>>> I went ahead and finished the install despite all the warnings I was
>>> getting compiling, but when I start nessusd with the suggested -D
>>> switch, it doesn't background correctly--it remains a foreground
>>> process, hogging the tty.
>>
>> How long are you waiting for nessusd -D to start up ? 0.5 seconds ?
>
> Actually, it did finally start, but it takes about two minutes. I'm 
> still having problems though--the client doesn't seem to be working. 
> After I start it with nessus&, I log in and accept the cert, then 
> nothing happens--the interface freezes and stops accepting clicks. I 
> get the following sort of thing in the console:
>
> ~~% [1877] nsend : Interrupted system call
> [1877] nsend : Undefined error: 0
> [1877] nsend : Undefined error: 0
> [1877] nsend : Undefined error: 0
> [1877] nsend : Undefined error: 0
> [1877] nsend : Interrupted system call
> [1877] nsend : Interrupted system call
> [1877] nsend : Undefined error: 0
> [1877] nsend : Undefined error: 0
> [1877] nsend : Undefined error: 0
> [1877] nsend : Undefined error: 0
> [1877] nsend : Interrupted system call
> [1877] nsend : Undefined error: 0
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