Re: RELOADING NESSUS

"Renaud Deraison (lists)" <[email protected]> Thu, 26 Jun 2008 18:40:10 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.security.nessus.general
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

On Jun 26, 2008, at 5:52 PM, John Scherff wrote:

> We have several custom plugins.  We've been reloading nessus with  
> nessusd -R whenever there are changes to these plugins or when we  
> add new ones.  Will nessusd -t accomplish the same thing -- load new  
> and changed plugins -- without the overhead of reloading unchanged  
> plugins?  Or will it just check timestamps of previously-existing  
> (not new) plugins?

Hi John,

nessusd -t will check the checksum (in 3.2) or the timestamp (in 3.0)  
of every plugin in the plugins directory, so it will accomplish what  
you need.

Take care,

					-- Renaud

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