Detached Scans Broken

[George Theall]

On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 09:08:14PM -0500, Jay W. Reffner wrote:

> Does anyone know how to fix Nessus 2.2.0 to work using detached scans?  
> I'm running OpenBSD 3.6 and everytime I try to run it I get an error 
> message in the nessusd.messages log file.  The message is SIGSEGV 
> occured -1.  Is this a problem with Nessus 2.2.0 on OpenBSD or do all 
> detached scans not work on all platforms?

This is a known problem; ie, see

  http://mail.nessus.org/pipermail/nessus/2004-November/msg00005.html

In short, it might be fixed in 2.2.1 but detached scans are not
recommended (schedule scans with cron instead). 

George
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theall at tifaware.com
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