Here, i wanted to launch Nessus from my server itself. My server is naked with Debian, Apache and Nessus. I simply type "Nessus" on the terminal of the server then i got : "Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display".
Am i supposed to install something on the server to drive Nessus from it or this use is not wise anyway and i should add another computer on the same network to drive the server ?
If you are launching Nessus through an SSH connection, which probably is doing X11 forwarding (check your DISPLAY environment variable, it might be something like 'localhost:10.0') then you need an X11 _server_ on your _client_.
It may sound bizarre, but what you are, in fact, doing, is executing the client application in the server but sending the display (the graphics) through your SSH connection back to the client. There needs to be something there to show the display in your local machine.
If you are using Linux in the client machine with X11, you already have it, if you are using any Windows variant, you will ned to have a X11 server in your desktop (there are a number out there available, including Xfree86 ported to Windows through Cygwin)
HTH
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