i am running nessusd and it listioning on 1241 port but nessus client is not starting from linux AS4
i have tried command "nessus &" but it didn't work... message come bash command not found..
pl tell me what to do.

Are you sure you installed the nessus client also?

Try "whereis nessus". (this will probably give no resulsts )
If this doesn't give any resulsts you may try looking for the nessus files with "locate nessus" (don't forget to update your search database first: "updatedb".
If "locate nessus" finds something you can try starting this using an absolute path.
eg: "/opt/bin/nessus"

In my case I tried "whereis nessus", it gave me a result of /opt/nessus/bin/nessus. Apart from this, I dont know why the command would not be found.

Any update on this please.

This is probably because the location of nessus is not in your path.

This tells you where nessus is located. Typing: in a terminal will tell you in what directories the system looks for commands. If /opt and /bin aren't in your PATH, it won't be found when you type the command. Typing Will add the directory /bin to your PATH, enabling the system to 'see' the command.

EDIT: The directory /bin should be in your path already (check to see with echo $PATH). If it is, then it is probably a permissions problem.

I'm having some kind of similar problem.

I'm new at Linux and it's really hard to learn commands when installations don't go as spelled out on forums, etc.

I THINK I installed NESSUS and downloaded the latest plugins. Now, I'm trying to get the client started but I'm not sure how.

I tried the whereis nessus comment from root@bt:/opt/nessus# - it came back with: nessus: /etc/nessus

from roott@bt:/opt/nessus# I typed in cd /etc/nessus

then I tried typing NessusClient

As you can see I'm totally lost. An online course I'm taking, which demonstrates and older version, somehow runs NessusClient from cd /bin/ - how do I get to that point?

P.S. when I use the echo command, this is what I get:

/opt/kde3/bin:/opt/kde3/games:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/opt/oracle/instantclient_10_2:/opt/oracle/instantclient_10_2

Hi, (sorry if my english is bad) I have the Slackware 13 kernel-current(2.6.37.6-smp), and i reach the total nessus installation, but with so much problems. I'll write something to help someone using newest Slack or similar.

i have an sucessufully installation with this packages: SERVER- nessus-server-2.2.9-1.fc4.i386.tgz (Fedora4package)

but i have an SERIOUS problem with the client installation, so i download the Slackbuild nessus-client 1.0.2, wich created /tmp/nessus-client-1.0.2-i486-2sl.tgz ,wich added NessusClient to /usr/bin. I think that's is possible install one nessus-client more recent, but didn't yet. i hope this help somebody-someone.