Updating Plugins During A Scan

[George Theall]

On Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 03:48:00PM +0000, Paul Johnston wrote:

> I am sure just sending Nessus a HUP is not quite enough for updating the 
> plugins. I've updated the plugins, done a HUP, and had weird 
> inconsistencies (and I'm not scanning; nessusd had no child processes). 
> If I then fully stop and restart it's ok. This has happened repeatably 
> with 2.0.7 (a little old I know).

The only trouble I'm aware of when updating plugins involves the cache
and a complete upgrade of nessusd.  For example, when I upgraded to
2.1.0, Nessus was mixing up the text of plugins until I removed the
cache and restarted nessusd; ie,

    http://mail.nessus.org/pipermail/nessus/2004-July/msg00217.html

I don't know for sure, but I suspect this was just a bug in early
versions of 2.1.x. 

George
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theall at tifaware.com
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