From 0b49f7f933577a1904f232bfc2d347553ed22860 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: dmiller Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2019 01:10:35 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Resume scan supports XML logs since 7.40. --- docs/refguide.xml | 12 +++++------- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/refguide.xml b/docs/refguide.xml index fb5a86d9c..4a60d6c21 100644 --- a/docs/refguide.xml +++ b/docs/refguide.xml @@ -4081,20 +4081,18 @@ hosts with at least one reboot, or Nmap itself could crash. The administrator running Nmap could cancel it for any other reason as well, by pressing ctrl-C. Restarting the whole scan from the - beginning may be undesirable. Fortunately, if normal - () or grepable () - logs were kept, the user can ask Nmap to resume scanning + beginning may be undesirable. Fortunately, if scan output + files were kept, the user can ask Nmap to resume scanning with the target it was working on when execution ceased. Simply specify the option and pass - the normal/grepable output file as its argument. No other + the output file as its argument. No other arguments are permitted, as Nmap parses the output file to use the same ones specified previously. Simply call Nmap as nmap --resume logfilename. Nmap will append new results to the data files specified in the - previous execution. Resumption does not support the XML - output format because combining the two runs into one valid - XML file would be difficult. + previous execution. Scans can be resumed from any of the 3 major + output formats: Normal, Grepable, or XML