Nmap Development: Re: [PATCH] --script-updatedb finishes with "Aborting database update."

["Patrick Donnelly" <batrick.donnelly () gmail com>]

On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 8:16 AM, jah <jah () zadkiel plus com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm getting the following with --script-updatedb:
>
> Starting Nmap 4.65 ( http://nmap.org ) at 2008-06-06 14:59 GMT Standard Time
> NSE script database updated successfully.
> SCRIPT ENGINE: Aborting database update.
> Nmap done: 0 IP addresses (0 hosts up) scanned in 0.078 seconds
>
> which seems to be caused by comparing "ret" in nse_main.cc:125 without
> it being initialised.
>
> I'm not quite certain that the attached patch is the best way to fix
> that, but it works for me and doesn't look like it would cause any problems.
>
> Regards,
>
> jah
I've applied this patch.

Thanks Jah,

-- 
-Patrick Donnelly

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to do and always a clever thing to say."

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