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Backtrack 5 : Information Gathering : Network Analysis : Identify Live Hosts : pbnj

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PBNJ is made ip of two commands which are scanpbnj and outputpbnj. The manpages for both scanpbnj and outputpbnj are located in collapsed tables at the bottom of this post in case you want more details. When you run scanpbnj it technically a script that runs nmap and dumps the results to a database. The scanpbnj command will store results in various database formats including CSV, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQLite. Once the results are stored you can pull the results from the database using outputpbnj which can output report style results in CSV format, tab delimited format, or HTML format. Continue reading below for more details regarding outputpbnj and scanpbnj on Backtrack Linux 5 r2.

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outputpbnj Error: Error in option spec: “test|=s”, Error in option spec: “debug|=s”

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Earlier tonight while testing the functionality of pbnj including both scanpbnj and outputpbnj on Backtrack Linux I noticed an error with outputpbnj. It appears that during one of the last updates the developer accidentally let a small bug slip by but unfortunately it stops outputpbnj from working at all. The good news is the outputpbnj bug is really easy to fix by remove a couple characters from a single line of the code base. Follow the directions below to get outputpbnj working properly on Backtrack Linux 5 R2.