Nessus 2.2.0 fork() failed

[Renaud Deraison]

On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 03:59:10PM +0100, Marc Ruef wrote:


Hi,

> This morning I have upgraded my Nessus installation on Debian GNU/Linux woody 2.4.20-1-686 with the usual "apt-get update && apt-get install nessus".
> 
> Afterwards I tried to run a test scan on the hosts in my network. As like in [1] my Nessus client produces the some fork errors in /var/log/nessus/ - The launch of all the plugins is not possible:
> [Wed Dec  8 16:20:44 2004][467] 'nikto_wrapper.nes' depends on 'libwhisker_settings.nasl' which could not be found

I don't know if that's the Debian build or your own system, but
this Nessus installation is broken. In Nessus 2.2, nikto.nes exits _right 
away_ as it has been replaced by 'nikto.nasl'. 


				-- Renaud