Thanks for posting the tip. It should come in handy.
Adam
Assuming you have enough memory, you can use the following shell script to configure nessus to use the ramdisk to get the latest updated nessus plugins:
#!/bin/sh
if ! [ "$USER" = 'root' ]
then
echo "You must be root to run this script!!"
exit 1
fi
echo "Removing symlink to nessus in etc directory"
rm -rf /etc/nessus
echo "(Re)creating nessus directories under ramdisk"
rm -rf /ramdisk/nessus
mkdir /ramdisk/nessus
mkdir /ramdisk/nessus/plugins
echo "creating symlink back to /etc/nessus"
ln -s /ramdisk/nessus /etc/nessus
echo "Moving all nessus files from CD to ramdisk"
cp /KNOPPIX/etc/nessus/* /ramdisk/nessus
echo "Updating location of plugins in nessusd.conf"
cat /ramdisk/nessus/nessusd.conf | grep -v "plugins_folder" > /ramdisk/scratch
mv -f /ramdisk/scratch /ramdisk/nessus/nessusd.conf
echo "plugins_folder = /ramdisk/nessus/plugins" >> /ramdisk/nessus/nessusd.conf
echo "updating plugins"
/usr/sbin/nessus-update-plugins -v
Thanks for posting the tip. It should come in handy.
Adam
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