code=exited, status=1/FAILURE

[user2959216]

I need help to figure out what's wrong because my beef is not able to startup it says:

● beef-xss.service - beef-xss
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/beef-xss.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Sat 2020-05-09 16:35:03 EEST; 4s ago
Process: 5566 ExecStart=/usr/share/beef-xss/beef (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
Main PID: 5566 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)

And here's infomation about my system:
os=parrot os
vpn= yes
proxy= no
Hellllpppp!!!!!!!!!!

[DeezyE]

Is this a new install of Beef?
Which beef version?

[jcrew99]

@DeezyE This would be the pre-packaged version of beef by kali.
@xkenraali Can you please describe the kali version and other ENV ?

[jackdwalker]

@jcrew99 note @xkenraali has mentioned that they are using Parrot OS rather than Kali.

[jcrew99]

@jackdwalker That's a good point, i think i got my issues messed up.
I will test for the parrot OS as well.

[user2959216]

my linux version is:
Linux parrot 5.5.0-1parrot1-amd64 #1 SMP Parrot 5.5.17-1parrot1 (2020-04-25) x86_64 GNU/Linux
and beef version:
beef-xss is already the newest version (0.5.0.0+git20191218-0kali2)

[user2959216]

Need anything else?

[bcoles]

Need anything else?

Are there any logs in dmesg, journalctl, or ~/.beef which might give an indication of the reason for startup failure?

[user2959216]

idk where i would find those logs i tried /usr/share/beef-xss but no luck

[user2959216]

Process: 2498 ExecStart=/usr/share/beef-xss/beef (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
i found that /usr/share/beef-xss/beef does no exist ??!! would that be the reason?

[bcoles]

idk where i would find those logs i tried /usr/share/beef-xss but no luck

journalctl and dmesg are utilities. You should find them in your $PATH.

~/.beef is a file path. ~ represents the user's home directory. The beef-xss service may (or may not) run as root, in which case the logs would located in /root/.beef. Presuming that BeEF is configured with logging on ParrotOS, you'll find the logs at /root/.beef/beef.log. However:

Process: 2498 ExecStart=/usr/share/beef-xss/beef (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
i found that /usr/share/beef-xss/beef does no exist ??!! would that be the reason?

That's not a good sign. Yes, that's probably the reason. I have no idea why or how that happened. Perhaps there's an issue with the beef-xss package on ParrotOS.

Perhaps you could find the directory containing the beef executable and run it from there.

Alternatively, you could try cloning BeEF from GitHub.

[user2959216]

Ok ill try delete beef and download it from github and not with pip install beef-xss because it seems that the whole parrot's pip and apt is broken.

[bcoles]

Ok ill try delete beef and download it from github and not with pip install beef-xss because it seems that the whole parrot's pip and apt is broken.

BeEF is written in Ruby. pip is used to managing Python packages.

[user2959216]

ya but when i got problems by installed by pip after that i tried apt but still not work...

[user2959216]

Omg i got it working!!! i did these commands:
git clone https://github.com/beefproject/beef/
cd beef
./install
./update-geoipdb
nano config.yaml
and changed username and password
./beef
and it worked thank so much for your help i wouldnt have motivation to do this my self :) !