Running Nessus security scanner on Cygwin

[Abhijit Bhaware]

Hello,

I am using Cygwin(1.5.8-1) to run the Nessus security
scanner. I have compiled the Nessus server on Cygwin
running on Windows XP, and have successfully executed
various plugins.

I have come across a couple of problems with the
Nessus on Cygwin(1.5.8-1), which dont appear when I run
it on linux.

1. The server sometimes hangs after running 20 or
    30 plugins. Sometimes it may run about 100 plugins
    and hang. It seems to hang arbitrarily i.e., it
    does not hang after running a specific plugin,
    or after some number of plugins. I even tried
    leaving the client-server on for more than an hour.
2. Nessusd gets a SIGSEGV signal and terminates.
    This seems to occur after it writes a socketpair
    error in the dump file.

If anyone has come across these problems on Cygwin,
I would appreciate any feedback/pointers to resolving
them. Also, if someone has run Nessus on Cygwin successfully,
it would be great to get feedback on that.

Thanks,
-- Abhijit

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