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Why Does My NST Probe Lock Up After Running Nessus Scans?

April 26, 2017lock Nessus nst probe running Scans

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Why Does My NST Probe Lock Up After Running Nessus Scans?

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We discovered that the Nessus daemon now likes to create very large log and dump files under the /var/nessus/logs directory. Unfortunately, this can fill the root RAM file system. This can cause your NST probe to slow to a crawl or even lock up (the NST becomes quite unhappy if you run out of space on /). In order to prevent this, you will need to modify the following lines in your /etc/nessus/nessusd.conf configuration file. The /etc/nessus/nessusd.conf file is much larger than shown – we are only showing the portion to be modified.