Re: Options for command line scanning

["Doug Nordwall" <raleel@gmail.com>]

I'm not perfectly familair with the option, but if you import the nmap.nasl plugin, I believe there is an option to use the results of an nmap scan in your nessus scan.

On 2/28/07, Kevin Reiter <KReiter@insidefsi.net> wrote:

Thanks, but the actual cron job portion isn't the issue - it's defining which ports that I want the Nessus scanner to scan, rather than scanning a pre-defined range.

-----Original Message-----
From: Morris, Josh [mailto: Josh.Morris@smithnephew.com]
Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2007 9:40 AM
To: Kevin Reiter; Nessus List (E-mail)
Subject: RE: Options for command line scanning


I have been working on this and finally got it to work, heres what I
did...

# crontab -l (shows cron jobs)
# crontab -e (edits cron jobs)

        Insert...
# * * * * * /opt/nessus/bin/nessus -q -T html 127.0.0.1 1241 username
password /home/reports/addresses.txt /home/reports/scan.html

Look up Crontab and you'll see what value to put for the stars. We scan
at the first of every month.

Hope this helps.

-----Original Message-----
From: nessus-bounces@list.nessus.org
[mailto:nessus-bounces@list.nessus.org ] On Behalf Of Kevin Reiter
Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2007 8:30 AM
To: Nessus List (E-mail)
Subject: Options for command line scanning

Hi all,

I'm trying to setup a cron job to scan certain hosts on specific ports
(output from a previously-run nmap scan), but every option I've tried
just displays the help screen.  Is it possible to do this from the
command line?  I know how to do it with a GUI client, but I'm trying to
automate the process.  Any assistance would be most appreciated.

O/S: FreeBSD 6.2
Nessus Server/Client: 3.0.5


Kevin Reiter
Senior Security Engineer
Financial Services, Inc.
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