Exporting The Plugins Directory?

[Erik Stephens]

On Nov 10, 2004, at 6:08 AM, Pete Vingh wrote:

> I'm lazy/efficient and only want to update plugins
> once so that multiple machines can have access to the
> same plugins.  So, would exporting
> /usr/local/lib/nessus/plugins to a Nessus box allow
> the Nessus box to see whatever plugins are in the
> exported filesystem?  Would that be a sound approach?

If you're trying to avoid downloading the tarball multiple times over 
the internet, then you could fairly easily store a local copy and 
modify nessus-update-plugins to  point to it instead of nessus.org.  
It's just one variable near the top of the script that would need 
changing.  But, that might not be the problem you're trying to solve 
:-)


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