Re: problems installing snort with mysql on Ubuntu server 8.04 (UNCLASSIFIED)

["Craig" <reswob10 () gmail com>]

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That did it.  Thanks all.


Craig L. Bowser
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-----Original Message-----
From: Douglas Burks [mailto:doug.burks () morris com] 
Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2008 16:45
To: Craig; snort-users () lists sourceforge net
Subject: Re: [Snort-users] problems installing snort with mysql on Ubuntu
server 8.04 (UNCLASSIFIED)

In addition to those packages, I also have libmysqlclient15-dev.

Doug


On 10/21/08 4:22 PM, "Craig" <reswob10 () gmail com> wrote:

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>  
> That didn't work.
>
> As far as installed mysql packages:
>
> After running the command:  dpkg -l | grep mysql
>
> this is the list I get:
>
> ii  libdbd-mysql-perl                     4.005-1                     A
> Perl5 database interface to the MySQL data
> ii  libmysqlclient15off                   5.0.51a-3ubuntu5.1
MySQL
> database client library
> ii  mysql-client-5.0                      5.0.51a-3ubuntu5.1
MySQL
> database client binaries
> ii  mysql-common                          5.0.51a-3ubuntu5.1
MySQL
> database common files
> ii  mysql-server                          5.0.51a-3ubuntu5.1
MySQL
> database server (meta package dependin
> ii  mysql-server-5.0                      5.0.51a-3ubuntu5.1
MySQL
> database server binaries
> ii  php5-mysql                            5.2.4-2ubuntu5.3
MySQL
> module for php5
>
>
>
>
>
> Craig L. Bowser
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Douglas Burks [mailto:doug.burks () morris com]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2008 16:01
> To: Craig; snort-users () lists sourceforge net
> Subject: Re: [Snort-users] problems installing snort with mysql on 
> Ubuntu server 8.04 (UNCLASSIFIED)
>
> I had a similar problem and was able to resolve it by changing line 
> 2556 in the configure file.  I changed the line from this:
> LIBS="${LIBS} -lz -lssl -lmysqlclient"
> To this:
> LIBS="${LIBS} -lmysqlclient"
>
> Doug
>
>
> On 10/21/08 3:48 PM, "Craig" <reswob10 () gmail com> wrote:
>
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> > OK.  I've been working on this for two whole days.  Here's my problem 
> > in a
> > nutshell:
> >
> > Installation of barnyard with mysql fails at this point:
> >
> > checking for
> > /root/snorttemp/snort-2.8.3.1/src/win32/WIN32-Includes/mysql//mysql.h.
> > .. yes checking for mysql_real_connect in -lmysqlclient... no
> >
> >
> > **********************************************
> >   ERROR: unable to find mysqlclient library
> >   checked in the following places
> > **********************************************
> >
> > Lengthy history of what I've tried and done prior to this:
> >
> >
> > Prior to this I looked at several how-to's from the following locations:
> >
> > http://www.howtoforge.com/intrusion_detection_base_snort
> > http://www.snort.org/docs/setup_guides/deb-snort-howto.pdf
> > http://linux.justinhartman.com/Intrusion_Detection_using_BASE_and_Sno
> > r
> > t
> >
> > First, I installed Ubuntu Server 8.04 with LAMP and SSH server.
> > I then updated all sources and upgraded all installed packages I then 
> > downloaded the latest Snort, PCRE, LIBPCAP, BASE and ADOdb.
> > To get libpcap to configure and install, I first had to run the
following:
> > sudo apt-get install gcc g++ libc6-dev make flex bison libpcap-dev
> >
> > After that, libpcap installed no problem.  But when I tried to 
> > install Snort with the following command:
> >
> > sudo ./configure --enable-dynamicplugin --with-mysql
> >
> > it complained about not finding the mysql headers.  So I amended the 
> > command
> > to:
> >
> > sudo ./configure --enable-dynamicplugin --with-mysql 
> > --with-mysql-includes=./snort-2.8.3.1/src/win32/WIN32-Includes/mysql/
> >
> > which is the directory where mysql.h was located.  Then, I got the 
> > following
> > error:
> >
> > checking for dlsym in -ldl... no
> > checking for dlsym in -lc... no
> >
> >     ERROR!  programmatic interface to dynamic link loader
> >     not found.  Cannot use dynamic plugin libraries."
> >
> > More searching found several recommendations against configuring 
> > snort with mysql.  So I tried again without mysql and it worked.  
> > Great.  So I then obtained the latest version of barnyard and 
> > attempted to install
> that.
> > But when I ran the following command:
> >
> > sudo ./configure --enable-mysql
> > -with-mysql-includes=/root/snorttemp/snort-2.8.3.1/src/win32/WIN32-In
> > c
> > ludes/
> > mysql
> >
> > I got the following error:
> >
> > checking for
> > /root/snorttemp/snort-2.8.3.1/src/win32/WIN32-Includes/mysql/mysql.h..
> > . yes checking for mysql_real_connect in -lmysqlclient... no
> >
> >
> > **********************************************
> >   ERROR: unable to find mysqlclient library
> >   checked in the following places
> > **********************************************
> >
> >
> > Any suggestions?
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> >
> > Craig L. Bowser
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