I have been trying to set up Metasploit for penetration testing.
However, I am unable to get the database to connect. Also whenever I attempt to start the service using service metasploit start I get the following error:
“failed to start metasploit.service
unit metasploit.service failed to load
no such file or directory”
I find this odd because I am able to run the program using:
Msfconsole I haven't been able to find any solutions online yet, can anyone here help me out?
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Log in to answerBest Answer · By JanBask MS SQL Server Expert
Answered on Nov 23, 2022
If you receive the error - failed to start metasploit.service -
#/etc/init.d/postgresql
service --status-all
service postgresql start
service postgresql status
#/usr/bin/msfconsole
msfdb init
msfconsole
msf > db_status
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