Re: nmap doesn't write to a file

["sara fink" <sara.fink () gmail com>]

On 10/16/08, JohnDoe <hommeentete () gmail com> wrote:
> Have you tried this flag:
>
> -oA <basename>: Output in the three major formats at once
>
> ?
>
> I use it like this:
>
> -oA scan.udp 2>> scan.udp.error
>
> This gives an .error file, a .nmap file, a .xml, and a .gnmap file.

Yes, this worked. After this try, I ran again my original commands
with -oX -oG and the files were created. I don't know what was the
problem. The only thing that still bothers me, is that it writes to
the file but writes to standard output as well. Is it normal?
> On Wed, 2008-10-15 at 18:13 +0200, sara fink wrote:
> > There is a space between -oX and file and no - instead of file name. The
> > weird thing is that it happened for whatever format of file I requested.
> >
> > I made yesterday a mistake and deleted some libraries without running
> > revdep-rebuild --library first. The libraries involved were
> > libcrypto.so.0.9.6 libssl.so.0.9.7 and libssl.so.0.9.6
> >
> > This mistake has to do something with the problem I have?
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 5:16 PM, David Fifield
> > <david () bamsoftware com>wrote:
> >
> > > On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 11:12:18AM +0200, sara fink wrote:
> > > > I am trying to save a scan to a file. I use nmap 4.76. I tried all the
> > > > options, Normal, xml, grepable. All of them are written to standard
> > > output.
> > > > It used to save to a file. Don't know what happened lately. Is it a
> > > > bug
> > > in
> > > > the recent release or something related to my gentoo box?
> > > >
> > > > The command I run is:
> > > >
> > > >  nmap -sU -n -v -v  -PN -p 5060 --open -oX file  <ip-range>
> > >
> > > I am not able to reproduce this. The command you gave creates an XML
> > > file called "file" for me. Does the above command cause XML output or
> > > normal output to be written to standard output for you?
> > >
> > > If you have a typo in the command that might keep the file from being
> > > created. If you type "-oXfile" instead of "-oX file" then Nmap will
> > > write normal output to the file called "Xfile". If you somehow have
> > > "-oX -" in the command then XML output will be written to standard
> > > output.
> > >
> > > David Fifield
> > >
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