Exporting The Plugins Directory?

Jared M Breland Jared.Breland at ipaper.com
Wed Nov 10 10:58:25 EST 2004


Shoot, my apologies everyone.  I realized after I clicked Send that this 
was in response to the wrong message.  Please disregard.

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nessus-bounces at list.nessus.org wrote on 11/10/2004 09:40:11 AM:

> 
> There is a ton of detail and sample code available at this site. Perhaps
> this could be used to fine-tune the plugin?
> 
> http://www.appsecinc.com/resources/alerts/oracle/2004-0001/
> 
> --
> Jared  
> 
> 
> 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
> :-)
> 
> 
> Best regards,
> Erik Stephens
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