Re: nmap-2.54b27+V-2.4

[MadHat <madhat () unspecific com>]

Understood.  So far I have been lucky enough on my network that it all 
appears to work quite well.  Thanks for the explanation.

At 11:28 AM 7/27/2001 -0500, Jay Freeman \(saurik\) wrote:
> MadHat:
>
> To make the point, there is no guarantee that the output from my version
> system will not itself contain slashes, commas, or semi-colons (or new lines
> or any other character for that matter, although it starts to get rarer).
> In fact, the ,'s are quite common.  The reason I don't support greppable
> output is because I _can't_ until someone (Fyodor?) defines what the rules
> for escaping such characters is and people start to update their readers to
> support the escaped output.  I believe we've had this same discussion before
> on nmap-dev, hehe.
>
> At one point, with one version (likely have to scan through CVS to find it,
> nmap.c is the only file that got changed so it should be easy to find...), I
> semi-officially supported it with my libtabular, which you will find
> derelict in the source code :-).  I had a version a while back that used
> libtabular to do all of its output.  If you use that library, you can have a
> single set of output commands that supports console, greppable, XML, and
> HTML output.  Currently, it is only used by my (also derelict) scan module
> system that you can find in the scans directory... hmm... didn't realize
> that was derelict until just now, I can fix FreeBSD by just dropping the
> support to compile that folder....
>
> This project really died because it's main purpose was adding XML output to
> nmap (which I did), but a few days before I had it ready Fyodor announced
> that he ALSO added XML output to nmap (although with the more
> administratively annoying stance of adding even more output code on more if
> statements, which I was trying to avoid), so I announced a CVS-only version
> and then started pulling back the changes (Fyodor's XML output contained
> additional data that was organized in ways I couldn't easily support, and
> then it became a nightmare to merge our code bases).
>
> Personally, I never did figure out a good way to parse greppable output
> (something I went into in one of my previous announcements, I find I always
> have to sed and tr the port definitions onto multiple lines before grep
> becomes useful), so I admire you for your resourcefulness :-)... I'll just
> stick with the XML output myself.
>
> [ for historical note there was a paragraph here that was removed ]
>
> Sincerely,
> Jay Freeman (saurik)
> saurik () saurik com
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "MadHat" <madhat () unspecific com>
> To: "Jay Freeman (saurik)" <saurik () saurik com>; "nmap-dev"
> <nmap-dev () insecure org>
> Sent: Friday, July 27, 2001 8:39 AM
> Subject: Re: nmap-2.54b27+V-2.4
>
>
> > Here is a patch I added for the "grepable" output with version (-sV with
> > -oG <file>), because I use a script to search the -oG output and wanted
> the
> > version info added...  Thanks for this feature.
> >
> > The search script is pretty simple, I use it as both a CGI and a CLI
> script.
> > Nothing spectacular, but it works...
> > http://www.unspecific.com/nmap/nmap-search  if anyone cares.
> >
> >
> > Sorry, not sure if I did the diff right, still learning.
> >
> >
> > diff -u nmap-2.54b27+V/output.c nmap-2.54b27+V./output.c
> > --- nmap-2.54b27+V/output.c     Thu Jul 26 20:38:43 2001
> > +++ nmap-2.54b27+V./output.c    Fri Jul 27 07:50:01 2001
> > @@ -238,9 +238,16 @@
> >            curr = curr->next;
> >          }
> >
> > -       log_write(LOG_MACHINE,"%d/%s/%s/%s/%s/%s//", current->portno,
> state,
> > -                 protocol, (current->owner)? current->owner : "",
> > -                 (service)? service->s_name: "", rpcmachineinfo);
> > +       if (o.versionscan) {
> > +         log_write(LOG_MACHINE,"%d/%s/%s/%s/%s/%s/%s/%s//",
> > current->portno, state,
> > +           protocol, (current->owner)? current->owner : "",
> > +           (service)? service->s_name: "", rpcmachineinfo,
> > +           (current->protocol)? current->protocol : "",
> > (current->version)? current->version : "");
> > +       } else {
> > +         log_write(LOG_MACHINE,"%d/%s/%s/%s/%s/%s//", current->portno,
> state,
> > +           protocol, (current->owner)? current->owner : "",
> > +           (service)? service->s_name: "", rpcmachineinfo);
> > +       }
> >
> >          log_write(LOG_XML, "<port protocol=\"%s\" portid=\"%d\">",
> > protocol, current->portno);
> >          log_write(LOG_XML, "<state state=\"%s\" />", state);
>
>
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