Hi,

I am trying to take a look at nessus to see how good it is, after it was recommended to me by a collegue.

So, I have dug out and installed an old copy of SuSE 8.2 personal.

I have "unzipped" all the tarballs and have installed all four nessus packages, Core, Libraries, Plugins and Libnasl.

(Let me just say, I dont use lynux very often at all and am not very familiar with how to use it!)

However it keeps telling me :

Make sure that /usr/local/bin is in your PATH before you continue

and

Make sure that /usr/local/bin and /usr/local/sbin are in your PATH before
you continue.
nessusd has been installed into /usr/local/sbin

and

Be sure to add /usr/local/lib in /etc/ld.so.conf and type 'ldconfig'[

I am typing PATH=$PATH /usr/local/bin in an attempt to add it to my path but it does'nt work (funnily enough)

Ive found out idconfig is to create links to shared directories used with the command line but I havent got a clue how to use it.
I know typing idconfig in a shell doesnt work

Could anyone explain how to use it for me?

Thanks very much in advance!!!

Add a colon ( : ) between "$PATH" and "/usr/local/bin"

If you're a normal user, then /usr/local/bin should already be in your path.
Type "echo $PATH" to find out.