Greenbone Feeds

Getting Started
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I am trying to manually update feeds and am unsraure if I am doing so correctly. I ran the following commands which I see without restrictions through my gateway firewall . Feeds are set to automatic and all are 3 days old and maybe I should wait this out but I was hoping I could get status that it is properly working before I go ahead and setup my scans

Command 1

sudo nc -vvv feed.community.greenbone.net 1 873
Warning: inverse host lookup failed for 45.135.106.143: Unknown host

feed.community.greenbone.net [45.135.106.143] 1 (tcpmux) : Connection timed out
feed.community.greenbone.net [45.135.106.143] 873 (rsync) open
@RSYNCD: 31.0
Greenbone community feed server - http://feed.community.greenbone.net/
This service is hosted by Greenbone Networks - http://www.greenbone.net/

All transactions are logged.

If you have any questions, please use the Greenbone community portal.
See https://community.greenbone.net for details.

By using this service you agree to our terms and conditions.

Only one sync per time, otherwise the source ip will be temporarily blocked.

@ERROR: protocol startup error
sent 1, rcvd 481

Commmand 2

rsync rsync://feed.community.greenbone.net

reenbone community feed server - http://feed.community.greenbone.net/
This service is hosted by Greenbone Networks - http://www.greenbone.net/

All transactions are logged.

If you have any questions, please use the Greenbone community portal.
See https://community.greenbone.net for details.

By using this service you agree to our terms and conditions.

Only one sync per time, otherwise the source ip will be temporarily blocked.

data-objects Greenbone community data objects, see https://community.greenbone.net/
nvt-feed Greenbone community NVT feed, see https://community.greenbone.net/
scap-data Greenbone community SCAP data feed, see https://community.greenbone.net/
cert-data Greenbone community CERT data feed, see https://community.greenbone.net/
community-legacy Greenbone community legacy feed, see https://community.greenbone.net/
community Greenbone community feed, see https://community.greenbone.net/

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These commands (1) sudo nc -vvv feed.community.greenbone.net 1 873 and (2) rsync rsync://feed.community.greenbone.net are not syncing the feed, they are only initializing a connection to the rsync feed.

As far as I understand, the correct method for updating the feeds depends on which version you are running. You can read this post for background

I think you need to run all the commands as the _gvm user (or gvm user for some installations) except maybe the new Python script can be run as sudo?

Feel free to disclose your installation and version for more direct help.

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