Nmap Scan from FreeBSD OS - Coding Question

[Bill Moran]

In response to linux quest <linuxquest7570 at yahoo.com>:

> I am currently doing a simple penetration testing for my company in a LAN
> environment. Yes, I have already downloaded NMap by using the 'make install'
> command... and it did fetched the required files from insecure.org
> successfully.
> 
> My question will be, how can I create a Network Program in .c that will
> invoke the nmap capabilities to scan the network or computers? Example,
> lets say, I want an automated nmap scan to run on FreeBSD to scan
> 192.168.1.10 and 192.168.1.11 , every morning at 10am - may I know how
> do I achieve that? I hope someone can show me a simple coding to invoke
> nmap scan, thanks :)

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It seems to me that C would be overkill for such a task.  You could easily
use cron + a shell/perl/python/etc script to get the task done.

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Bill Moran
Collaborative Fusion Inc.