schedule a scan

[Jay Jacobson]

On Wed, 10 Nov 2004, Grant Baker wrote:

> I know this is an easy question, but what do I need to do to run a scan at a 
> certain time of the day . I want to schedule a scan to run when I am away 
> from the office such as nightly ?. What commands do I need to do ? script ? 
> Any help would be appreciated for this newb :)


There is no built-in support for this in Nessus. However, it is pretty 
easy to do. Just write a little script to run the CLI Nessus client and 
use cron to schedule it.

~Jay

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