---
name: "nessus-update-plugins"
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"
---

# nessus-update-plugins(8)

updates the Nessus security checks automatically

## NAME

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

## SYNOPSIS

**nessus-update-plugins** \[-v\[v\]\] \[-h\]

## 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** will fetch all the newest 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 [nessus-fetch(1)](/nessus-fetch/1.md) (part of nessus-core), [tar(1)](/tar/1.md) and [gzip(1)](/gzip/1.md) to do its job.

## OPTION

- \-v

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

- \-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.

## SEE ALSO

[nessus-fetch(1)](/nessus-fetch/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