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FS#10470 - Snort does not work.

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Pranay Kanwar (warl0ck) - Thursday, 22 May 2008, 10:12 GMT
Last edited by Andreas Radke (AndyRTR) - Sunday, 15 June 2008, 18:23 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Andreas Radke (AndyRTR)
Architecture All
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version 2007.08-2
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 1
Private No

Details

-- Description:

The snort package does not work out of the box.
I did the following to get it working

1. Changed 'SNORT_ARGS' in /etc/conf.d/snort to
SNORT_ARGS="-A fast -c /etc/snort/snort.conf -p -D"

The config file path mainly and added the -A, alert option.

2. In /etc/snort.conf changed the following

a. The 'dynamicpreprocessor directory' directive to /usr/lib/snort_dynamicpreprocessor/
b. The 'dynamicengine' directive to /usr/lib/snort_dynamicengine/libsf_engine.so
c. Only one of 'stream4' or 'stream5' preprocessors can be enabled, disabled 'stream4'.

3. Could you please build snort with database support (mysql,postgresql etc).

-- Additional info:
* Tested with snort 2.8.1-1

-- Steps to reproduce:
* running snort (#/etc/rc.d/snort start) does not generate alerts.
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Closed by  Andreas Radke (AndyRTR)
Sunday, 15 June 2008, 18:23 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Comment by Martin Sandsmark (sandsmark) - Tuesday, 03 June 2008, 14:31 GMT
Any good reason why database support isn't compiled in already?
Comment by Andreas Radke (AndyRTR) - Sunday, 15 June 2008, 18:23 GMT
db support is an optional feature. use ABS to modify the PKGBUILD your needs.

/etc/conf.d/snort should now be well preconfigured following Fedora cvs.

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