[Nikto-discuss] alerting

[David Lodge]

On Tue, 02 Mar 2010 05:54:43 -0000, jaslina kk  
<jaslinamuhammedkk at gmail.com> wrote:
> I am planning to do an automatic alert via email to network administrator
> about the  vulnerabilities. Its a LAN scanner..I thought of building it  
> up
> from nikto in linux platform. also using the  *sendmail in linux.* Is  
> there
> any other method for doing this?

It's up to you how you do this, the easiest way would be to just email  
Nikto's output as part of a shell script. If you want to be adventurous,  
you could try and write a report plugin for Nikto to automagically email  
when it finds a vulnerability.