Update nessus from command line [Mac Yosemite]

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Very often, I have encountered problems with updating nessus home feed plugins and components. This is the common message from Nessus.

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The following commands can be used to update nessus plugins on yosemite, if you fail doing via web interface:

To update plugins:

cd /Library/Nessus/run/sbin

sudo ./nessuscli update

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To update plugins and components:

sudo ./nessuscli update --all

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To update just the plugins:

sudo ./nessuscli update --plugins-only‍

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