Manually Update Plug-ins

[George A. Theall]

On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 09:11:26AM -0400, Holstein, Robert -
BLS CTR wrote:

> I am evaluating Nessus in an isolated test environment. I
> would like to know if there is an easy way to download and
> update the plug-ins for Nessus manually.

If by manually you mean something other than running
nessus-update-plugins at a commandline as Josh suggests, the
better approach would be to configure nessus-fetch to go
through a proxy, if possible. 

Alternatively, copy the plugins over from another Nessus
server in your organization. Or install Nessus on a second
host so that you can run nessus-update-plugins and then copy
the plugins over from that host.

As a last resort, you can retrieve
http://www.nessus.org/nasl/all-2.0.tar.gz as Tobias suggests
although that only gets you the GPL feed, which includes a
limited set of plugins.

George

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