Fwd: Extracting Windows name from the registry

["Philip Morris" <phlpmrrs@googlemail.com>]

Thnx Bob - the build.exe did it for me.

Now that I have run this I now have to sort out my programming syntaxes - .... groan.  All this just to suck out a value from the Windows registry.  Mind you, once I have learnt how to do this I can see this plugin being invaluable.

Phil

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Bob Babcock <rbabcock@cfa.harvard.edu>
Date: 14-Dec-2006 03:51
Subject: Re: Extracting Windows name from the registry
To: phlpmrrs@googlemail.com
Cc: nessus@list.nessus.org

> Our set up is Nesus 3.0.4 running on a Windows 2000 SP4 machine.
>
> I have created an .nasl file and copied it
> into my plugins\scripts directory which contains all the other .nasl files.
> Nessus has been restarted and yet this plugin does not appear under any of
> the "Families" even though it has been set "Windows".

I found, by trial, that you have to run a program to install a new or edited
script.  I'm at home now and nessus is at work, but I'm pretty sure it was
build.exe that did the trick.  Also, when changing an existing script, I had
to blow away the XML files created by build.exe before the updated version
would install.  This seems to be the equivalent of purging the database when
downloading plugins.  Again, I haven't seen any documentation for this so
there might be a better way.
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