scan dependencies

[Paul Johnston]

Hi,

Dunno exactly how you've done this, but if you've edited the config file 
by hand then you may have hit an issue I hit a while ago. If there is a 
trailing space on a line to disable a plugin i.e. "12345 = no " then 
that will be interpreted as YES.

nessusd.messages should contain a full list of plugins run - this may 
help debugging.

Paul


Sullo wrote:

>I was just running an SSL test against a few networks, 1 port only, server
>v2.0.12. In the Win gui I disabled all plugins, and then turned on two checks:
>"SSL Ciphers" (10863) and "NSS Library SSLv2 Challenge Overflow" (14361). Also
>enabled dependencies, since it didn't seem to want to identify SSL without
>something else (as I expected).
>
>It was taking longer than I thought it should, and checked nessusd.log and found
>that it was running DDI_Directory_Scanner.nasl against all the hosts. I'm trying
>to follow the tree of dependencies in the scripts to see why it's running, but I
>can't find it...
>
>So, is there an easier way to figure out why it's running--what is dependent on
>it? To run two SSL tests it doesn't seem like it should be a requirement to run
>a directory scanner...
>
>Thanks
>Sullo
>
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