Demonstration 2: Nessus vs. SuSE 8.1
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Nessus is a comprehensive & customizable network security
scanner. It rules.
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Get it at http://www.nessus.org (*** USE SECURITY SCANNERS
RESPONSIBLY, or else! ***)
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SuSE is my favorite Linux distro, but that's unimportant:
its implementations of
tail, syslogd, etc. are the same
as any other *NIX's.
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However, SuSE's (default) application-configs and syslog/syslog-ng
configs may be different than on your OS of choice: YMMV
Host 1's Nessus progress:
Host 2's log output (/var/log/messages):
