Bug 86664 – nessus-2.20 init script says [ OK ] but no daemon is running

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Eric Brown 2005-03-25 08:09:49 UTC]

Yet another init script bug...
I neglected to create a certificate before I started nessus with /etc/init.d/nessus start, the script said [ OK ] indicating that the process ran successfully, but actually it did not, it even told me to install a certificate first!

If Nessus can tell users to install a certificate, the init script should be able to tell if the process launched!

Even if this is just another fork OK = init OK type of bug, we should still have some sort of check in the init script like "ps aux | grep nessusd"...

please don't say UPSTREAM =)

Reproducible: Always
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[Comment 1 Marco Morales 2005-03-25 12:31:15 UTC]

Created attachment 54464 [details]
nessusd-r6.diff

[Comment 2 Marcelo Goes (RETIRED) 2005-03-25 12:39:22 UTC]

Marco's script checks for cert_file in /etc/nessus/nessusd.conf, which is added when nessus-mkcert is ran. Eric, please tell if this fixes your problem.

[Comment 3 Eric Brown 2005-03-31 16:00:24 UTC]

It works, initial installation does not have nessus.conf, so it fails properly.

[Comment 4 Marcelo Goes (RETIRED) 2005-03-31 17:00:22 UTC]

Thanks, fix in cvs.