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NAME

6       greenbone-nvt-sync  -  updates the OpenVAS NVTs from Greenbone Security
7       Feed or Community Feed
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SYNOPSIS

10       greenbone-nvt-sync
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DESCRIPTION

13       The OpenVAS Scanner performs several security checks. These are  called
14       Network  Vulnerability Tests (NVTs) and are implemented in the program‐
15       ming language NASL. Some NVTs are wrappers for external tools.  As  new
16       vulnerabilities  are published every day, new NVTs appear in the Green‐
17       bone Security Feed. This feed is commercial and requires  a  respective
18       subscription  key.   In case no subscription key is present, the update
19       synchronisation will use the Community Feed instead.
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21       The script greenbone-nvt-sync will fetch all new and  updated  security
22       checks and install them at the proper location. Once this is done Open‐
23       VAS Scanner, openvas(8) will automatically detect that new and  updated
24       NVTs are present and consider them for next activities.
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SEE ALSO

28       For more information see: openvas(8),
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AUTHOR

32       This  manual  page  was  written  by Jan-Oliver Wagner <jan-oliver.wag‐
33       ner@greenbone.net>.
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35       The greenbone-nvt-sync script was written by Greenbone Networks GmbH.
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39The OpenVAS Project              January 2011            GREENBONE-NVT-SYNC(8)
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