Re: NSE Infrastructure: Eliminate script.db

[Fyodor <fyodor () insecure org>]

On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 03:27:46PM -0500, Kris Katterjohn wrote:
> Unfortunately, everytime I write a new script I have to set NMAPDIR and
> use -script-updatedb to update the script database in my nmap
> directory--for a lot of simple scripts this gets old :).

Hi Kris.  Thanks for the suggestion.  You are supposed to be able to
do:

nmap --script ./mynewscript.nse

Is that not working for you?  You shouldn't need to add it to the DB
unless you want to call it by category.

> I was thinking that Nmap could use the steps it takes to build the
> database file, but instead of writing to the script.db it could just
> build the internal list of scripts (or however it works--I'm not
> well-versed in the innards of NSE).  This would eliminate the
> - -script-updatedb option and the script.db.

Well, we added the script.db for efficiency reasons.  It may not make
a huge difference now, but it might start to as the number of scripts
continues to grow.  I believe Diman did some testing with 10,000
scripts.  Right now we only have about 50, but the system is still
new.  Nessus has more than 21,000 plugins.

Cheers,
-F

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