Re: Feature Request: --update

["Joshua D. Abraham" <jabra () ccs neu edu>]

On 19.Jan.2007 09:34AM -0600, Kris Katterjohn wrote:

> Andreas Ericsson wrote:
> > pciutils have a similar functionality, but implemented as a separate
> > script. I can't help but feel that this would be much better than
> > adding some ftp/http/whatnot capabilities to the nmap core.
>
> I was actually just using straight send()/recv()s. I had thought about a
> script using wget (I wrote one for Packet Storm with wget and awk to
> grab the latest files using their XML feeds), which I would write if I
> thought my nmap_update.cc wasn't as good as I thought it would be.

I do like the idea of software that is can update itself. I am
wondering how this would work if nmap was installed with package
management. Perhaps it wouldn't apply, but I want to get thoughts
about what would happen anyway.

-- 
Joshua D. Abraham
Northeastern University
College of Computer and Information Science
www.ccs.neu.edu/home/jabra

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