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Re: Nessusd 3.0.3 not updating every 24 hours

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Subject: Re: Nessusd 3.0.3 not updating every 24 hours
From: "George A. Theall" <theall@tenablesecurity.com>
Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2006 11:32:46 -0500
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On Fri, Nov 17, 2006 at 09:21:54AM -0500, Kelly, Jim wrote:

Nessusd 3.0.3
It is configured to update plugins every 24 hours, but as you can see from November's logs it isn't: [Wed Nov 1 08:46:53 2006][10796] nessusd-update: started. Will update plugins every 24 hours [Sun Nov 5 04:37:32 2006][12934] nessusd-update: started. Will update plugins every 24 hours
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> Now I'm not sure what, if anything, I should be looking for in
> nessusd.dump. Can anyone tell me what could be causing this?

Was nessusd running during this time? [For example, what do you see if you grep nessusd.messages for "started"?] Do you see "nessusd-update" in the list of running processes while nessusd itself is running?


George
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