---
name: "nessus-update-plugins-gpl"
section: "8"
platform: "linux"
package: "nessus-plugins"
version: "2.2.10-6"
release: "Debian 5.0 (Lenny)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/nessus-update-plugins-gpl"
---

# nessus-update-plugins-gpl(8)

updates the Nessus security checks automatically

## NAME

nessus-update-plugins-gpl - updates the Nessus security checks automatically

## SYNOPSIS

**nessus-update-plugins** \[-v\] \[-r \<pluginname\>\] \[-h\] \[-i \<pluginname\>\]

## DESCRIPTION

The  **Nessus Security Scanner** performs several security checks, each of them being coded as an external plugin coded in NASL. As new security holes are published every day, new plugins appear on the Nessus web-site (www.nessus.org), and having an up-to-date nessusd server can be difficult and time consuming.\
 The script  **nessus-update-plugins-gpl** will fetch all the newest GPL security checks for you, install them at the proper location, and restart [nessusd(8)](/nessusd/8.md) so that it take them into account.\
 **nessus-update-plugins** uses [lynx(1)](/lynx/1.md), [tar(1)](/tar/1.md) and [gzip(1)](/gzip/1.md) to do its job.

This script has been superseded by the  **nessus-update-plugins** program and is only provided for those users that do not use the registered plugin feed. Use of the registered plugin feed, however, is encouraged.

## OPTION

- \-v

  Will make  **nessus-update-plugins-gpl** display the name of the newly installed plugins.

- \-r \<pluginname\>

  Make **nessus-update-plugins-gpl** display the source code of the plugin *\<pluginname\>*

- \-i \<pluginname\>

  Only install the plugin *pluginname*

- \-h

  Show the help summary

## PROXIES

If you are behind a web proxy, then read the manual page of *nessus-fetch* to configure nessus-fetch with a proper proxy support.

## SECURITY NOTES

nessus-update-plugins-gpl uses [lynx(1)](/lynx/1.md) to retrieve the archive of the new plugins, at http://www.nessus.org/nasl/all-2.0.tar.gz.  **The scripts are not signed** so a cracker may poison your DNS server and force this script to retrieve scripts on another web server, and then force your nessusd to execute nasl scripts that do something else. Even if this can not do much harm (see the NASL reference guide for more information on that subject) you should be extra careful regarding this.

So **use this script with caution**

## SEE ALSO

[lynx(1)](/lynx/1.md), [gzip(1)](/gzip/1.md), [tar(1)](/tar/1.md)\
 [nessus(1)](/nessus/1.md), [nessusd(8)](/nessusd/8.md), [nessus-adduser(8)](/nessus-adduser/8.md)

## MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE NESSUS PROJECT

The canonical places where you will find more information  about the Nessus project are : \
\
\
 	http://www.nessus.org (Official site)\
\
 	http://cvs.nessus.org (Developers site)

## AUTHOR

Renaud Deraison \<deraison@cvs.nessus.org\>. This script has been released under the GPL