RE: (2.4.4 and Ubuntu on 2.6.12) Odd install from source

["Braley, Ron" <ron.braley () berbee com>]

Rob,

In my experience, the .conf files get extracted into the installation
directory/etc (i.e. /usr/local/src/snort-2.4.4/etc).

Not only should you see the snort.conf file there, but threshold.conf
too.

I think library files are put in the proper locations during the
installation process - there's no need to do anything else but the
following:

a.  Put the executable file wherever you'd like it to be (/opt/snort/bin
for us . . .)
b.  Copy the snort.conf file from the extraction point/etc to wherever
you'd like it to be (i.e. /opt/snort/etc/)
c.  Download the rules and include this directory in the snort.conf file
d.  Start snort (manually or automatically) - remember to include the
location of the snort.conf file in the command (i.e.
#/opt/snort/bin/snort -i eth5 -c /opt/snort/etc/snort.conf -D

Hope that helps!

Ron Braley, Berbee
Datacenter Security Engineer



-----Original Message-----
From: snort-users-admin () lists sourceforge net
[mailto:snort-users-admin () lists sourceforge net] On Behalf Of Rob Munsch
Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2006 11:21 AM
To: snort-users () lists sourceforge net
Subject: [Snort-users] (2.4.4 and Ubuntu on 2.6.12) Odd install from
source

'allo list,

I've had an odd problem installing 2.4.4 from source.  conf/make/make 
install goes smoothly, but only the binary itself - and the man page - 
actually 'go anywhere.'

I'm not sure if this is deliberate, but i've poked around the docs, 
checked the faq, and burned black candles at midnight - no success.  
Nothing goes to my /etc; no conf, nothing in init.d, nada.  Not the 
snort.conf itself nor any of the secondary conf files, nor is a rules 
dir created, nor /var/log/snort, etc.

The docs seem to assume these things'll be in place when you run, but 
there's no explicit manifesto of needed files.  I went and manually 
moved stuff around, created the dirs and files needed, etc., but i was 
sort of wondering about the whole thing.

Ubuntu seems to want to apt me 2.3.2, and it looks like there's a slew 
of bugfixes and whatnot in the 2.4 branch, so i'd rather go with latest 
stable source.  Is there a reason the various config files, and assorted

log/conf/rules directories, aren't created at install?  There doesn't 
seem to be any reference to them in the makefile, tho my understanding 
there is limited.

Praying fervently not to have caused a drink or three,

-- 
Rob Munsch
Solutions For Progress IT



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