AW: AW: problem with updateplugins.pl (inprotect Inst-Man step 12)

[Simon Meggle]

Hi Dave,
first: thanks for your help!

(I have tested temporarly with the original updateplugins.pl script, plus
line 104 and 106 editing. No success - same return line on the shell, same
log entry.)


Without any further editing of the .pl file, the updateplugins.log shows:
--- cut ---
Can't call method "finish" on an undefined value at updateplugins.pl line
354.
--- cut ---

Line 354 is:

--- cut ---
        # Cleanup statement handles
        #$sth_sel2->finish();
 354==>  $sth_sel3->finish();

        disconn_db($dbh);

        #end of main
}
--- cut ---

After adding "your" 'print' command, clearing the logfile and executing the
script again, the log contains:
--- cut ---
/usr/local/bin/nessus -qxpS     > /tmp/plugins.sql  #->caused by the
modifcaton of the script
Can't call method "finish" on an undefined value at updateplugins.pl line
356.
--- cut ---

Is line 1 the output you expectet - or is it wrong?

Thank you very much!

Simon


-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Von: daveInprotect at davewking.com [mailto:daveInprotect at davewking.com]
Gesendet: Mittwoch, 1. Dezember 2004 08:44
An: Simon Meggle
Betreff: Re: AW: problem with updateplugins.pl (inprotect Inst-Man step
12)


Glad I could help.  Looks like something strang is happening on line
114.  For some reason it thinks it's either gettting too many or not
enough parameters.  First I would check out /var/logs/updateplugins.log
to see if it can give any hints.  If not, then you  can try adding this
on line 112 (between the if ($updateplugins==1) and the #Dump Nessus
plugins . . .)

print "$CONFIG{'NESSUSPATH'} -qxpS $nessusserver $nessusport $nessususer
$nessuspassw > $tempfile";

(this is just line 114 but with a print instead of a system).   This
will print the command it's trying to run to the log file.  Look at this
and make sure it has all the right settings and nothing funny on it.
Also, I guess there's a chance that when you modified it before that
some other problem was introduced, so you may try simply replacing the
it with a clean one, and then fixing the comments.

Laters,
Dave King

Simon Meggle wrote:

>Hi Dave, hi everybody,
>that worked for me, thank you.
>Executing updateplugins.pl now takes much more time than before - nothing
to
>worry about; that gives me the hope that something is going on...
>But - after 4-5 minutes there ist another problem :-)
>The script ends with one line i can't explain:
>--- cut ---
>[root at ntbk bin]# perl updateplugins.pl
>list-sessions only requires -q host port user pass
>[root at ntbk bin]#
>--- cut ---
>Can you / or anybody explain what's wrong?
>
>Thank you very much,
>Simon
>
>
>-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
>Von: daveInprotect at davewking.com [mailto:daveInprotect at davewking.com]
>Gesendet: Dienstag, 30. November 2004 17:50
>An: Simon Meggle
>Betreff: Re: problem with updateplugins.pl (inprotect Inst-Man step 12)
>
>
>This is a bug in Inprotect 0.20.  You need to comment out line 106 and
>uncomment  line 104.
>
>Laters,
>Dave King
>
>
>Simon Meggle wrote:
>
>
>
>>Hello,
>>i have installed inprotect on a red hat 9 machine with the following
>>packets:
>>PHP 4.3.9
>>Apache 2
>>Perl 5.8.0
>>nessus 2.2
>>inprotect 0.20
>>
>>I followed the installation manual of inprotect, but on step 12 (running
>>updateplugins.pl) i have big problems. After exectuting updateplugins.pl i
>>can see in the logfile:
>>---- cut ----
>>Tue Nov 30 16:31:24 2004 updateplugins: No new plugins installed at
>>updateplugins.pl line 106.
>>---- cut ----
>>
>>
>>
>>Line 106 in updateplugins.pl is:
>>---- cut ----
>>       #execute nessus-update-plugins
>>       #system ("nessus-update-plugins") == 0 or print localtime(time)."
>>updateplugins: No new plugins installed";
>>       #If used patch for nessus-update-plugins, we may pass parameter on
>>the command line.
>>106==>  system ("nessus-update-plugins.141 -u $inprotect_url/nessus") == 0
>>or die localtime(time)." updateplugins: No new plugins installed";
>>
>>       #Sleep 30 sec, allow nessusd to restart
>>       sleep 30;
>>---- cut ----22
>>
>>Please, can oyu help me?
>>
>>Greets from Munich,
>>
>>Simon
>>
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