Nmap: Network Exploration and Security Auditing Cookbook - Second Edition

Fixing outputpbnj

At the time that this book was being written, there was a bug that did not let outputpbnj run. After researching the issue, it looks like a patch might not be coming soon, so I decided to include the relevant fix here.

To identify if your outputpbnj is broken, try displaying the version number using the following command:

$ outputpbnj -v 

If you have a broken version, you will see the following error message:

   Error in option spec: "test|=s"    Error in option spec: "debug|=s" 

Before attempting to fix it, let's create a backup copy of the script using the following command:

# cp /usr/local/bin/outputpbnj outputpbnj-original  

Now open the script with your favorite editor and find the following line:

 'test|=s', 'debug|=s' ...