Nessus 4.0.1 for FreeBSD

[Paul Schmehl]

--On Tuesday, June 16, 2009 13:17:52 -0500 Paul Schmehl 
<pschmehl_lists at tx.rr.com> wrote:

>
> Has anyone downloaded this binary distro and gotten it working on FreeBSD?  I
> tried it recently, with disasterous results.  It not only didn't work, but it
> blew up my port install, which now refuses to update the plugins.
>
> If someone knows how to get 4.0.1 working on FreeBSD, I'd sure appreciate a
> brief tutorial.
>

Apparently persistence pays off.  After installing (using pkg_add), and had to 
run nessusd -R twice to fix the plugins dbs so that the daemon would start and 
run properly.

So anyone who's trying to do this, after registering and fetching the plugins, 
run nessusd -R twice (if it craters the first time, as it did for me) before 
starting the daemon.  After that everything should work as expected.

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Paul Schmehl, Senior Infosec Analyst
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