[PLUG] FW: Nessus
Rich Shepard
rshepard at appl-ecosys.com
Fri Sep 13 23:43:53 UTC 2002
On Fri, 13 Sep 2002, Jim Webb wrote:
> I'm trying to get Nessus to run. I installed the nessus vulnerability
> scanner, but I'm unable to start the nessus daemon. I found it in
> /usr/local/sbin where it has 755 for permissions. I'm logged in as su root.
> bash told me that "bash: nessusd: command not found". And I can start the
> nessus client.
Do I understand correctly that you su'd to root, then invoked,
'/usr/local/sbin/nessusd' and it did not start?
You were probably in your user directory -- even as root -- and
/usr/local/sbin is not in your user $PATH.
Rich
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