On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 5:49 PM, Jeffs <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jeffs@speakeasy.net" target="_blank">jeffs@speakeasy.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Whenever nexpose community edition starts up it seems to take a long time and re-do commands and sequences that it already did before. For example, I always see this message:<br>
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"compiling vulnerability definitions for first time users, this could take several minutes...."<br>
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Well, I'm not a first time user so does it go through this each and every time it starts up?<br>
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thanks.<br>
<br></blockquote><div><br>nexpose enterprise is intended to be started, and kept running in the background (usually on a dedicated machine) for ongoing scanning. the adhoc process of startup / shutdown that some of us use for nexpose means that checks have to be compiled every time.<br>
<br>I believe the initial compilation process is XML vuln checks -> JESS code. Can anyone confirm that?<br><br>jcran<br><br><br>Jonathan Cran<br></div></div><a href="mailto:jcran@0x0e.org" target="_blank">jcran@0x0e.org</a><br>
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