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Re: report_paranoia

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Subject: Re: report_paranoia
From: "George A. Theall" <theall@tenablesecurity.com>
Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2007 10:38:35 -0500
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On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 08:09:52AM -0600, Scott Pate wrote:

In NessusClient the options are Normal, Paranoid..., but in some plugins I see "if ( report_paranoia < 2 ) exit(0)". How do these values map to each other?

  "Avoid false alarms" => report_paranoia = 0
  "Normal" => report_paranoia = 1
  "Paranoid" => report_paranoia = 2

[The mapping is done in global_settings.inc, if you're interested.]

George
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