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[Michel Arboi]

On Mon Dec 20 2004 at 18:53, Peter HEARD wrote:

> With Nessus 2.2.2,  the NMAP OS guess preferences are no longer
> available... 
> Were these preferences removed purposely, and if so, for what
reason?

Because it eats too much memory. There is a problem with rlimits. This
has been fixed but we disabled the Nmap option while the fix is not
released.
 
> For those of us who are also using Nessus for collecting OS type
> Stats, this is a bit of a set back.

You can run nmap by itself, save the results (-oG) into a file that is
uploaded to Nessus. The options were removed but the plugin is still
able to parse the OS or service information.