i wish i'm in the right section to post my question.
I'd like to update nessus but i got a problem trying it, can someone help me ?

So i tried to update it by typing :
nessus-update-plugins

and i got that error that i can't understand

[9024] () Unknown escape sequence \0
[9024] () Unknown escape sequence \0
synthax error, unexpected ";" [9024] ()
parse error at or near line 48
/usr/local/nessus/lib/nessus/plugins/nomdunasl.nasl could not be loaded
[17024] () Unknown escape sequence \0
[17024] () Unknown escape sequence \0
synthax error, unexpected ";" [17024] ()
parse error at or near line 157
/usr/local/nessus/lib/nessus/plugins/autrenomdenasl.nasl could not be loaded

and then it stops after 2 attempts...

It is connected but i can't explain myself what's not working.
can someone please help or give a clue ...

btw : sorry my english sux

Unfortunatly I have not seen errors such as the ones that you have been recieving. But here is a work around that you can do in the mean time thaat will at least let you update your plugins. Locate the nesus-update plugins script, open it up in whatever text editor that you may prefer. Inside of the script use a little bit of enginuity and you will be able to determine what archive they are downloading inside of the updates.

You simply use wget and grab the file manually and then uncompres it into a seperate directory and then copy the uncompressed files into your nessus/plugins directory. This technique can even be automated by creating your own shell script that basically performs the same actions as the pr built nessus-update-plugins script.

I had to come up with this manual method since for some un-explained reason openbsd chokes within the syntax of the prebuilt script. Enjoy and I hope this help you out.

thanx helping

the path was right,

I forgot to register on the web site and then receive my activation key to update nessus.

and then do

#nessus-fetch --register XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX
-bash: nessus-fetch command not found



btw : to update nessus when using a proxy u need to create a proxy settings file :
~/.nessus-update-pluginscr

i'm just saying that for those that will need to do it ...