Fwd: Re: Urgent doubt

[George Theall]

On Sat, Jan 22, 2005 at 06:05:32PM -0800, Madhu k wrote:

> > 1) Where i have to write the command
> > nessus-update-plugins in a system  for up dating
> > plugins? 

I'm not sure I understand your question....  nessus-update-plugins is a
command that can be run at a shell prompt, through cron, or as part of
another script. 

> Give me please the correct syntax .

Do "man nessus-update-plugins".

> > 2)If i dont have direct internet connection to the
> > nessus server ,then how can i up date the plugins. ?

You'll need to retrieve it via a third machine then.  If a simple web
proxy isn't available to you, you'll need to build nessus-fetch on an
intermediate machine, set up a process to move the plugin tarball from
the intermediate machine to your server or else a way to make it
available to the server, and finally modify the source to nessus-fetch
on the server to retrieve the file from the alternate location. 

> > 3)How can i schedule the pluggin up date timings ?

I don't understand your question. Are you simply asking about cron?

> > 4)Is Nessus  providing any facility   for deploying 
> > the  patches ?

No, it's a scanner, not a software distribution system.

> > 5)Can i scan a system having operating system windows
> > 98

Certainly.  Nessus doesn't care about the underlying OS. 

George
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theall at tifaware.com
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