incomplete audit and update-nessusrc failure

KAYVEN RIESE <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.nessus.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
I am using a command line nessus client scanning within a LAN
using

[20:31 kayve@kv_bsd~/stan]nessus -q minkay.sfsu.edu 1241 kayve kayve 
in.nbe out3.html
*** The plugins that have the ability to crash remote services or hosts
have been disabled. You should activate them if you want your security
audit to be complete

[20:57 kayve@kv_bsd~/stan]uname -a
FreeBSD kv_bsd.sfsu.edu 7.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE #0: Sun Feb 24 
19:59:52 UTC 2008 
[email protected]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386
[21:03 kayve@kv_bsd~/stan]

[20:12 kayve@kv_bsd~/stan]pkg_info | grep essus
Nessus-3.2.0        A powerful security scanner
nessus-2.2.9_1      A security scanner: looks for vulnerabilities in a 
given ne
nessus-libnasl-2.2.9_1 Nessus Attack Scripting Language
nessus-libraries-2.2.9_1 Libraries for Nessus, the security scanner
nessus-plugins-2.2.9_1 Plugins for Nessus, the security scanner
[20:13 kayve@kv_bsd~/stan]


I found some advice about using a script called update-nessusrc
but that is failing

I guess this is an old page:

http://www.tifaware.com/perl/update-nessusrc/

I was trying to take the advice to do a command that updated
the nessusrc to make the script scan the dangerous ports as follows:

[19:11 kayve@kv_bsd~/stan]./update-nessusrc.pl -c 
"attack,infos,mixed,scanner,se
ttings,denial,destructive_attack,kill_host" ~/.nessusrc
*** You must set $nessusd_host! ***
  at ./update-nessusrc.pl line 335


but as you can see, this particular script that I downloaded is
not working.

Thanks in advance to anyone willing to give me the time of day.

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