[Openvas-discuss] updaterc script?

[John A. Sullivan III]

That would be fabulous and so much simpler.  So the plugins do not need
to be listed in the rc file first? I was ignorantly assuming that would
merely change the status from no to yes but then those wouldn't be new
plugins, would they! Thanks - John

On Fri, 2009-03-20 at 09:27 +0530, Chandrashekhar B wrote:
> Hello John,
> 
> I think, adding "auto_enable_new_plugins = yes" should do the job in the rc
> file.
> 
> Chandra. 
> 
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> [mailto:openvas-discuss-bounces at wald.intevation.org] On Behalf Of John A.
> Sullivan III
> Sent: Friday, March 20, 2009 1:36 AM
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> Subject: [Openvas-discuss] updaterc script?
> 
> Hello, all.  We are delighted that, after tracking down a pile of
> dependencies, our CentOS 5.2 based automated vulnerability scanning
> server is running on OpenVAS.  However, it is automated and runs scans
> from cron jobs calling OpenVAS-Client in batch mode.  Thus, updating the
> rc files with the latest plugins is a problem.
> 
> Is there an OpenVAS equivalent of the various update-nessusrc scripts we
> used to use under Nessus? Thanks - John
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