This question is relevant for other things I am considering with nessus:
= Can nessus plugins include an outside file, and parse it's contents ?
Uri.
On Sun, 2 Jan 2005 19:17:55 +0100, Renaud Deraison <deraison@private> wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 02, 2005 at 04:40:34PM +0200, Uri Gilad wrote:
> > 1. The logging in problem - which is something in the nessus-engine.
>
> ... or in the config of the remote host.
>
> > 2. The problem of knowing the most updated version of the DATs.
> >
> > I am assuming the tenable team is working on #1, so here is a question
> > about #2 :
> >
> > Suppose we get all the correct files into the plugin code, the will
> > remain a challenge of
> > chasing the DAT file versions. As far as I can see from current code,
> > the plugin contains the date statically in the nasl code.
> > Is it possible for the plugin to "include" a file which I will be
> > dynamically update (using a deamon looking at the vendors web sites).
> > This file will contain the relevant date/version info for the dat ?
>
> The plugin is updated regularly. Run nessus-update-plugins and you'll
> have the latest checks.
>
> -- Renaud
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