Re: [W3af-users] W3af in the Background

[Andres R. <and...@gm...>]

Aman,

On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 4:10 PM, Aman Thakur <ama...@gm...> wrote:
> Hi Guys,
> Good Day!!
>
> I am trying to automate the w3af scanning process in my LAN. But i am having
> hard time with it.
>
> What i have done till now is that. I have made a small http server in
> python. In which, i am passing the domain name of my own website.
> eg: $ 192.168.1.100:8080/?website=www.mywebsite.com
>
> When i run the http server by sshing to the server and running it in
> background using the ampersand(&). So, if my ssh session is on and i send a
> request to scan from my other machine on the LAN, then it starts the scan
> and shows it in my ssh session screen.
> $ runserver &
>
> But if i end my session, after running the server in the background with the
> following commands:
> $ runserver&
> $ exit
>
> Then, it creates the process but it never finishes the process or scan. I
> can see the w3af_console process in the result of $ ps aux command but it
> never finishes it.
>
> Can anyone suggest me something about it? Can we do a scan by invoking the
> w3af_console in the background? Is running the w3af in background possible
> on a machine?

I believe this issue is not related to w3af, but maybe some links might help:

 * http://www.celeryproject.org/
 * https://docs.python.org/2/library/subprocess.html

In case this is related to w3af, the way to discover that is to enable
text_file output and debug the output.

> Thanks
>
> With Regards
> Aman Thakur
>
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