Re: Quick question on scripting

[Patrick Donnelly <batrick () batbytes com>]

On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 11:15 AM,  <shorejsi2 () mmm com> wrote:
>  I've looked through the Nmap script writing documentation (probably not
> closely enough...) and I have one unanswered question,
>
>  Is it possible to write a script which conditionally causes another
> script to run?
>
>  What I am trying to do is trigger several deeper discovery scripts when a
> host exhibits a certain pattern of open (and closed) ports. I realize I
> could probably create custom versions of these existing scripts to do
> exactly what I want, but I was hoping there was a more elegant way.

List the dependency between the scripts [1]. Then set a flag in the
registry as Ron suggested.

[1] http://nmap.org/book/nse-script-format.html#nse-format-dependencies

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- Patrick Donnelly
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