Re: snort installation issues
The work directory only shows up after a 'make' and disappears after a 'make clean' -Stephen On Wed, 5 Feb 2003, Bsd Neophyte wrote: > > Second, the file you're looking for should be somewhere like: > > /usr/ports/security/snort/work/snort-1.9.0/contrib/create_mysql > > Been there, tried that. Unfortunately, there aren't any directories under > /usr/ports/security/snort. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
Re: snort installation issues
On Tue, 4 Feb 2003 13:24:10 -0800 (PST) Bsd Neophyte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > i'm following the, "How to setup and secure Snort, MySQL and Acid on > FreeBSD 4.6 Release" off of the snort.org website. > > in the documentation it says snort should be installed through the > following: > > - > make -DWITH_MYSQL -DWITH_FLEXRESP ; make install > - > > later it says to do the following: > > - > /usr/local/bin/mysql -p < > /usr/ports/security/snort/work/snort-1.8.6/control create_mysql snort > - > > the problem is this, there is no "work/snort-1.8.6/create_mysql snort" > under "/usr/ports/security/snort". > > i've also tried locating the file by using find, but it doesn't seem to > exist. > > does anyone know what to do about this? cd /usr/ports/security/snort make extract This will create the work directory for you below the /usr/ports/security/snort dir. Regards, Stephen Hilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
Re: snort installation issues
--- Stephen Cravey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > First, you should probably be using snort 1.9.0. Read the handbook > section > on cvsup to learn how to update your ports collection. > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvsup.html > > > Second, the file you're looking for should be somewhere like: > /usr/ports/security/snort/work/snort-1.9.0/contrib/create_mysql Been there, tried that. Unfortunately, there aren't any directories under /usr/ports/security/snort. > Third, the current ACID port is ancient and does not deinstall properly. > It also has some other bugs you'd probably rather avoid. > Look at: > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/47828 > > Get the patch, cd /usr/ports/security/acid, patch < patchfilename > and all should be well. Hmmm... thanks for the heads-up with this. I'll patch this ASAP. __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
