Nessus 5.0 Installation and Configuration Guide - Tenable Network
Nessus 5.0 Installation and Configuration Guide - Tenable Network
Nessus 5.0 Installation and Configuration Guide - Tenable Network
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configuration options for your environment as described in the “Feed Registration <strong>and</strong> GUI<br />
<strong>Configuration</strong>” section.<br />
<strong>Nessus</strong> must be installed to /opt/nessus. However, if /opt/nessus is a symlink<br />
pointing to somewhere else, this is accepted.<br />
START THE NESSUS DAEMON<br />
Start the <strong>Nessus</strong> service as root with the following comm<strong>and</strong>:<br />
Linux <strong>and</strong> Solaris:<br />
# /opt/nessus/sbin/nessus-service -D<br />
FreeBSD:<br />
# /usr/local/nessus/sbin/nessus-service -D<br />
Below is an example of the screen output for starting nessusd for Red Hat:<br />
[root@squirrel ~]# /sbin/service nessusd start<br />
Starting <strong>Nessus</strong> services: [ OK ]<br />
[root@squirrel ~]#<br />
If you wish to suppress the output of the comm<strong>and</strong>, use the “-q” option as follows:<br />
Linux <strong>and</strong> Solaris:<br />
# /opt/nessus/sbin/nessus-service -q -D<br />
FreeBSD:<br />
# /usr/local/nessus/sbin/nessus-service -q -D<br />
Alternatively, <strong>Nessus</strong> may be started using the following comm<strong>and</strong> depending on the<br />
operating system platform:<br />
Operating System Comm<strong>and</strong> to Start nessusd<br />
Red Hat, CentOS, &<br />
Oracle Linux<br />
Fedora Core<br />
SuSE<br />
Debian<br />
# /sbin/service nessusd start<br />
# /sbin/service nessusd start<br />
# /etc/rc.d/nessusd start<br />
# /etc/init.d/nessusd start<br />
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