Re: Windows NSE bug in latest SVN?

[Patrick Donnelly <batrick () batbytes com>]

Hi Michael,

On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 6:43 PM, Michael Pattrick
<mpattrick () rhinovirus org> wrote:
> I was trying out the latest SVN when I hit a snag. It appears that
> updatedb is broken on windows.
>
> > .\nmap.exe --script_updatedb
>
> Starting Nmap 4.85BETA8 ( http://nmap.org ) at 2009-04-24 20:14
> Eastern Daylight Time
> NSE: Updating rule database.
> NSE script database updated successfully.
> Nmap done: 0 IP addresses (0 hosts up) scanned in 2.53 seconds
>
> > .\nmap.exe --script=all 192.168.1.1
>
> Starting Nmap 4.85BETA8 ( http://nmap.org ) at 2009-04-24 20:15
> Eastern Daylight Time
> NSE: failed to initialize the script engine:
> ...Studio 2008\Projects\nmap\mswin32\Debug\nse_main.lua:324:
> nonFTP.nse is not a file!
> stack traceback:
>        [C]: in function 'assert'
>        ...Studio 2008\Projects\nmap\mswin32\Debug\nse_main.lua:324:
> in function 'Entry'
>        ...o 2008\Projects\nmap\mswin32\Debug\scripts\script.db:40: in
> function 'db_closure'
>        ...Studio 2008\Projects\nmap\mswin32\Debug\nse_main.lua:331:
> in function 'get_chosen_scripts'
>        ...Studio 2008\Projects\nmap\mswin32\Debug\nse_main.lua:472:
> in main chunk
>        [C]: ?
>
> QUITTING!
>
> >
>
> When I opened the script.db file I discovered an escape at the
> beginning of every filename.
> Entry { category = "auth", filename = "\anonFTP.nse" }
> Entry { category = "default", filename = "\anonFTP.nse" }
> Entry { category = "intrusive", filename = "\anonFTP.nse" }
> Entry { category = "discovery", filename = "\asn-query.nse" }
> Entry { category = "external", filename = "\asn-query.nse" }
>
> I also had a friend test this out with the latest beta and he
> encountered the same bug.

This should be corrected in r13067.

Cheers,

-- 
-Patrick Donnelly

"One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing
to do and always a clever thing to say."

-Will Durant

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