Nmap Development: Re: Signal to send Nmap to pretend I pressed Enter?

[Fyodor <fyodor () insecure org>]

On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 01:53:10PM -0600, Nathan wrote:
> I've got an instance of nmap 4.60 on linux that's been running all
> weekend--which is weird, because I didn't expect it to take nearly
> that long.  I called it from a script, but the output is being
> redirected to a file.  I'd like to get it to print out the ETA as if I
> had pressed Enter, but I don't have access to stdin for the nmap
> process.  Is there some signal I could send it with kill or something
> that would act the same as if I had pressed Enter?
It won't help for this scan, but next time add the -v (verbose)
option.  That should provide an ETA update from time to time even when
you can't interact with the terminal.

Cheers,
-F

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