need help debugging nessus

I am trying to get nessus working as a 64 bit application on (Fedora Core ) 
linux.

I have the lib64 patches from SUSE.  I also have gcc fixed so that it does not 
loop when compiling network.c.  I have also found at least one other bug 
where nessus is using the "wrong" struc ... and will pass the patches 
upstream once I get more accomplished.

I have found a number of seg-faults (SIGSEGV) in nmap_tcp_connect.nes as well 
as possibles in some NASL scripts (although they run fine with the nasl 
command so it may be something else).

Since nessus makes extensive use of fork-process, I am having difficulty 
trying to debug things ... ddd seems to be having other problems so I have 
fallen back to using gdb.  However, when I run gdb by attaching the "nessusd 
serving" process, the tests are not run.  Any hints on how to use gdb with 
nessus?

Many times when debugging, I insert printf or fprintf statements into the 
source code so that I can print out info to help see what is going on.  I 
have having difficulty getting anything.

Is there something I can use to get info into the logs/nessusd.dump or 
logs/nessusd.message files?  I tried "log_write" but that does not seem to 
work.  Any hints appreciated.
-- 
Gene

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