Apologies for the delay in getting back to this, I've been busy.
On Tue, 6 Feb 2007, Renaud Deraison wrote:
>
>On Feb 6, 2007, at 2:36 PM, Eleanor Blair wrote:
>
>> Hi there, I'm getting an odd error message at the beginning of the
>> output of a nessus scan:
>>
>> rules_new():open : No such file or directory
>> Loading the Nessus plugins...
>> Loading the plugins... 51 (out of 13706)
>>
>> The command-line I'm using is:
>>
>> /security/nessus/bin/nessus -x -c [config file] -q [address] [port]
>> [username] [password] [targets file] [results file] -T nbe
>>
>> I'm running nessus (Nessus) 2.2.8 for Linux
>>
>> Sadly the error message doesn't tell me what file it's trying to open,
>> so I can't easily see what the problem is. Any clues?
>
>it's likely that it's trying to open $prefix/etc/nessus/nessusd.rules
>and can't because this directory hierarchy does not exist.
The file /security/nessus/etc/nessus/nessusd.rules exists
Where is $prefix defined?
>Your path seems odd and you probably did not install Nessus properly,
>otherwise this directory would exist. Did you move the whole Nessus
>install from one location to another ?
Yes, the path is odd, nessus was deliberately installed in a non-default
directory, is this a problem? I don't seem to have any other problems
with running it.
I rather inherited the machine on which it's installed, and we're
planning to start from scratch on a new machine, but it would be useful
to know what the problem here is even if we do go for the default
location with the new install.
--
Eleanor Blair ecb39@eng.cam.ac.uk
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