Re: Serious trouble: plugins not always executed

Jan-Oliver Wagner <[email protected]> Thu, 6 Jan 2005 13:09:21 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.nessus.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 12:13:42PM +0100, Jan-Oliver Wagner wrote:
> Debugging is difficult, but it seems that the SSH access
> sometimes really happens but the results don't make it
> back to Nessus Server. Sometime even SSH access did
> not happen and, alas, sometimes everything works.

For a case where it does not work I find the following in

nessusd.dump:
| error: 'kern.maxfiles' is an unknown key
| [25580] nessus_get_socket_from_connection: bad fd <-1>
| [25580] nessus_get_socket_from_connection: bad fd <-1>
| [25585] nessus_get_socket_from_connection: bad fd <-1>
| [25596] nessus_get_socket_from_connection: bad fd <-1>
| [25598] nessus_get_socket_from_connection: bad fd <-1>
| [25600] nessus_get_socket_from_connection: bad fd <-1>
| [25581] nessus_get_socket_from_connection: bad fd <-1>

any idea what the reason might be for these errors?

nessud.messages:
| [Thu Jan  6 12:55:56 2005][25533] nessusd 2.3.0. started
| [Thu Jan  6 12:56:22 2005][25533] connection from 192.168.11.13
| [Thu Jan  6 12:56:22 2005][25568] Client requested protocol version 12.
| [Thu Jan  6 12:56:22 2005][25568] successful login of test from 192.168.11.13
| [Thu Jan  6 12:56:29 2005][25568] Redirecting debugging output to /var/nessus/logs/nessusd.dump
| [Thu Jan  6 12:56:52 2005][25568] user test starts a new scan. Target(s) : thetis, with max_hosts = 20 and max_checks = 4
| [Thu Jan  6 12:56:52 2005][25568] user test : testing thetis (192.168.11.13) [25571]
| [Thu Jan  6 12:56:52 2005][25571] user test : launching ssh_settings.nasl against thetis [25572]
| [Thu Jan  6 12:56:52 2005][25571] ssh_settings.nasl (process 25572) finished its job in 0.003 seconds
| [Thu Jan  6 12:56:52 2005][25571] user test : launching ping_host.nasl against thetis [25573]
| [Thu Jan  6 12:56:52 2005][25571] ping_host.nasl (process 25573) finished its job in 0.011 seconds
| [Thu Jan  6 12:56:52 2005][25571] user test : launching nessus_tcp_scanner.nes against thetis [25574]
| [Thu Jan  6 12:56:57 2005][25571] nessus_tcp_scanner.nes (process 25574) finished its job in 5.207 seconds
| [Thu Jan  6 12:56:57 2005][25571] user test : launching find_service.nes against thetis [25578]
| [Thu Jan  6 12:59:51 2005][25571] find_service.nes (process 25578) finished its job in 173.202 seconds
| [Thu Jan  6 12:59:51 2005][25571] user test : launching ssh_get_info.nasl against thetis [25644]
| [Thu Jan  6 12:59:51 2005][25571] ssh_get_info.nasl (process 25644) finished its job in 0.014 seconds
| [Thu Jan  6 12:59:51 2005][25571] Finished testing thetis. Time : 178.49 secs
| [Thu Jan  6 12:59:51 2005][25568] user test : test complete
| [Thu Jan  6 12:59:51 2005][25568] user test : Kept alive connection

Looks fine. Except that I don't get the uname -a for SSH.

-- 
Jan-Oliver Wagner               http://intevation.de/~jan/

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