Starting the Metasploit Framework

Starting the Metasploit Framework

General use of Linux Kali
According to the Policy Network Services Linux Kali , no network services and database services on startup, so there are a few steps that must be taken into account for the implementation and support Metasploit a database .

1- Start the PostgreSQL service of Kali

Metasploit using PostgreSQL as its database so you need to be logged previously .

service postgresql start

You can verify that it is running PostgreSQL reviewing the response of ss -ant and making sure that port 5432 is listening.

State Recv- Q Send - Q Local Address : Port Peer Address : Port
LISTEN 0 128 ::: 22 ::: *
LISTEN 0 128 * 22 * : *
127.0.0.1:5432 LISTEN 0 128 * : *
LISTEN 0 128 :: 1:5432 ::: *

2- Start the Metasploit in Kali

With PostgreSQL running, the next step is to run the Metasploit service. The first time the service runs a database user msf3 data and a database called msf3 be created. The service will also run the required RPC and web servers.

service metasploit start

3-Start msfconsole Kali

Once started services Metasploit and PostgreSQL , you can start msfconsole and verify connectivity database with the following command : db_status

msfconsole
msf > db_status
[ * ] Postgresql connected to msf3

msf >
Configure Metasploit to run at startup

4- If you prefer PostgreSQL Metasploit and run at startup, you can use update- rc.d to enable services as shown below:

update- rc.d enable postgresql
update- rc.d enable metasploit