nessus-update-plugins - updates the Nessus security checks automatically
SYNOPSIS
nessus-update-plugins [-v[v]] [-h]
DESCRIPTION
The
Nessus Security Scanner performs several security checks, each of them being coded as an external plugin coded in NASL. As new security holes are published every day, new plugins appear on the Nessus web-site (www.nessus.org), and having an up-to-date nessusd server can be difficult and time consuming.
The script
nessus-update-plugins will fetch all the newest security checks for you, install them at the proper location, and restart nessusd(8) so that it take them into account.
nessus-update-plugins uses nessus-fetch(1) (part of nessus-core), tar(1) and gzip(1) to do its job.
OPTION
"-v"
Will make
nessus-update-plugins display the name of the newly installed plugins.
"-h"
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PROXIES
If you are behind a web proxy, then read the manual page of
nessus-fetch to configure nessus-fetch with a proper proxy support.
