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Re: Options for command line scanning

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Subject: Re: Options for command line scanning
From: "George A. Theall" <theall@tenablesecurity.com>
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 11:05:31 -0500
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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?

Depending on what you mean by a previously-run nmap scan, perhaps. You'll need to use the optional nmap.nasl plugin -- http://www.nessus.org/documentation/index.php?doc=nmap-usage#nmap_plugin -- along with nmap's greppable output format (-oG). Tweak the Nessus client config file how you want, but make sure you have something like this:

Nmap (NASL wrapper)[file]:File containing grepable results : = /home/theall/scans/labnet.ports

where "/home/theall/scans/labnet.ports" is the output file from nmap.

George
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