Re: Snort on Linux - Witch Distro?

["George Laiacona" <glaiacona () aikencountysc gov>]

I've got Fedora Core 64 running wirth Snort, MySQL and BASE. It's on a Dual Opteron system, 2 GB RAM, Tyan motherboard, 
ATA drives sotware mirrored (I'd rather use SCSI, but that's what I had available).

I have only one problem, but otherwise everything runs well. I discovered that the installation of MySQL on FC x86-64 
doesn't put mysql.sock the same place Snort is looking for it, at least not for the default installation and following 
the directions in "Snort, MySQL and Base on Fedora Core 4" as a guide.

Sounds like support for your SATA controller might be lacking in the distros you are trying. That's why I went with 
regular ATA drives.

George.

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Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 18:57:36 -0500 (EST)
From: snort () brainstomp com 
To: snort-users () lists sourceforge net 
Subject: [Snort-users] Snort on Linux - Witch Distro?

Hi all - I am having one heck of a time getting a 64Bit distro to run
Snort on. My current Snort box runs on Windows and I really want to stop
using Windows. I have tried my favorite Distro - SlackWare (10.2) and the
64Bit port and neither has native support for my SATA controller. So I
went on a hunt for a distro to install to run Snort on. So far I have
tried

Fedora Core 4 64Bit (Would not complete boot up - ever, even tried
re-installing)
CentOS 4.2 64Bit (Same results as FC4)
OpenSuSe 10 64Bit (CD MD5's never matched the downloads - downloaded it 3
times from different servers)
Ubuntu 5.10 64Bit (Could not get MySQL running - much less Snort)

I am not very familiar with FreeBSD (or any *BSD) but if the strongest
response to this is BSD then I'll have to dive into it. Ultimately I just
want to run a secure 64Bit Linux box that I can run Snort/MySQL/BASE on.
So with that in mind - What are your suggestions?

Felix


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the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of misery.
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