I’ve never really thought about using metasploit but after poking at it a bit I’ve realized that it’s obviously worth having the most up to date version of the exploit tree or modules as they are called in the metasploit framework.

On a hard drive install of backtrack, updating this is easy enough: just go to the metasploit directory and use the following SVN command to update the framework. The path to run this command in is /pentest/exploits/framework3 (if you are using the 3.x version of the framework):

# svn update

This will need an internet connection but it’s not that bad to update. It also updates any documentation that may be new since the original disk image was created or since the last time you ran this command.

I know this isn’t a big piece of information but it may thrust people forward if they know about it…