Running nessu on Ubuntu on WSL2

Question

I am unable to start nessus in WSL using:

/bin/systemctl start nessusd.service

I get the following error:

System has not been booted with systemd as init system (PID 1). Can't operate.
Failed to connect to bus: Host is down

Answer 1

Use sudo /opt/nessus/sbin/nessus-service. Systemd is not available in WSL2, so you need to use the older init-style scripts when available.