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Re: rules_new():open : No such file or directory

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Subject: Re: rules_new():open : No such file or directory
From: "George A. Theall" <theall@tenablesecurity.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 20:05:18 -0500
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On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 05:25:36PM +0000, Eleanor Blair wrote:

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

Does the setting for 'rules' in nessusd.conf point to that file? Alternatively, does "nessusd -s | fgrep rules" show "rules = /security/nessus/etc/nessus/nessusd.rules"? [You may need to tweak this a bit if your PATH variable doesn't include the directory where nessusd is installed.] If not, adjust the setting in nessusd.conf and restart nessusd.


George
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