Re: running scripts from directories

[Robin Wood <robin () digininja org>]

On May 12, 2013 10:20 PM, "Patrick Donnelly" <batrick () batbytes com> wrote:
> Hi Robin,
>
> On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 4:16 PM, Robin Wood <robin () digininja org> wrote:
> > Hi
> > I'm playing with running groups of scripts from a single directory but
> > can't get it working. I thought you just specified the directory name to
> > the script parameter but when I try that I get the following error:
> >
> > ./nmap  localhost --script=/tmp/nmap
> >
> > Starting Nmap 6.25 ( http://nmap.org ) at 2013-05-12 21:05 BST
> > NSE: Warning: Loading '/tmp/nmap' -- the recommended file extension is
> > '.nse'.
> > NSE: failed to initialize the script engine:
> > /usr/src/nmap-6.25/nse_main.lua:234:
/usr/src/nmap-6.25/nse_main.lua:227:
> > Is a directory
> > stack traceback:
> >         [C]: in ?
> >         [C]: in function 'load'
> >         /usr/src/nmap-6.25/nse_main.lua:234: in function 'loadscript'
> >         /usr/src/nmap-6.25/nse_main.lua:505: in function 'new'
> >         /usr/src/nmap-6.25/nse_main.lua:765: in function
> > 'get_chosen_scripts'
> >         /usr/src/nmap-6.25/nse_main.lua:1239: in main chunk
> >         [C]: in ?
> > stack traceback:
> >         [C]: in function 'assert'
> >         /usr/src/nmap-6.25/nse_main.lua:234: in function 'loadscript'
> >         /usr/src/nmap-6.25/nse_main.lua:505: in function 'new'
> >         /usr/src/nmap-6.25/nse_main.lua:765: in function
> > 'get_chosen_scripts'
> >         /usr/src/nmap-6.25/nse_main.lua:1239: in main chunk
> >         [C]: in ?
>
> Thanks for the report. This is fixed in r30887.

Can't complain at the speed of that. I'll check in the morning.

Robin

> --
> - Patrick Donnelly
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