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Re: [Snort-users] problem starting snort..kindly help

Subject: Re: [Snort-users] problem starting snort..kindly help
Date: Mon, 28 May 2007 20:00:03 -0400
I am looking at your history file here, and it looks like you descended into the snort dir, and did a config, but you never did a make nor a make install.

Kinda need to do that.



joel esler | security consultant | Sourcefire | pgp  key is public



On May 28, 2007, at 7:26 PM, pearl carlo wrote:

Hi Scott, atkins, and rmkml

here is what i did after downloading the required packages to / local/usr/src

43  cd /usr/local
   44  tar zxvf src/pcre-7.1.tar.gz
   45  cd pcre-7.1
   46  ./configure
   47  make
   48  make install
   49  cd ..
   50  tar zxvf src/libnet-1.0.2a.tar.gz
   51  cd Libnet-1.0.2a/
   52  ./configure
   53  make
   54  make install
   55  cd ..
   56  tar zxvf src/libpcap-0.9.4.tar.gz
   57  cd libpcap-0.9.4/
   58  ./configure
   59  make
   60  make install
   61  cd ..
   62  tar zxvf src/snort-2.6.1.5.tar.gz
   63  cd snort-2.6.1.5/

In between here i installed mysql through rpm (devel and admin)

78 ./configure --enable-flexresp --with-mysql --enable- dynamicplugin
79 mkdir /etc/snort
80 mkdir /var/log/snort
81 tar zxvf /usr/local/src/snortrules-snapshot-CURRENT.tar.gz - C /etc/snort
82 cp etc/*.conf* /etc/snort
83 cp etc/*.map /etc/snort
84 ln -s /usr/local/bin/snort /usr/sbin/snort
85 groupadd snort
86 useradd -g snort snort
87 chown snort:snort /var/log/snort
88 vi /etc/snort/snort.conf
89 vi /etc/snort/snort.conf
here i have chaged the RULE_PATH in the snort.conf file




  112  service mysqld status
  113  service mysqld start

here i had some problems related to mysql , sorted those out and continued
setting mysql
it took the schema and no problems creating database here


  164  /usr/local/bin/snort -c /etc/snort/snort.conf
 at this stage i get the message
bash: /usr/local/bin/snort: No such file or directory

  whereis snort
or
whereis snort.conf
gives me
snort: /usr/sbin/snort /etc/snort

and if i give
/usr/sbin/snort -c /etc/snort/snort.conf i get the follwing
bash: /usr/local/bin/snort: No such file or directory

tail -f /var/log/messages gives me following

May 28 15:54:53 localhost last message repeated 50 times
May 28 15:55:55 localhost last message repeated 50 times
May 28 15:56:57 localhost last message repeated 50 times
May 28 15:57:59 localhost last message repeated 50 times
May 28 15:59:01 localhost last message repeated 50 times
May 28 16:00:03 localhost last message repeated 50 times
May 28 16:01:05 localhost last message repeated 50 times
May 28 16:02:07 localhost last message repeated 50 times
May 28 16:03:09 localhost last message repeated 50 times
May 28 16:04:11 localhost last message repeated 50 times

Is it that i need to uninstall the packages and relaod the rpm based version..
can somebody give me clue to progress further and give me some idea what is going on and where could be the mistake...


appreciating for your time ..

pearl






"Atkins, Dwane P" <ATKINSD@uthscsa.edu> wrote: Pearl,

If you do a tail -f /var/log/messages, do you see any errors? Did you try and reconfigure it with the --with-mysql?


From: pearl carlo [mailto:pearlcarlo@yahoo.com] Sent: Mon 5/28/2007 1:29 AM To: Atkins, Dwane P Subject: RE: [Snort-users] problem starting snort..kindly help

i am trying to install snort 2.6.1.5


"Atkins, Dwane P" <ATKINSD@uthscsa.edu> wrote:

What version are you trying to install? I can only guess since I am
rather new, but you may want to attempt to ./configure --with-mysql
Make
Make install


-----Original Message----- From: snort-users-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:snort-users-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of pearl carlo Sent: Sunday, May 27, 2007 10:29 PM To: snort-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Snort-users] problem starting snort..kindly help

hi all
i have installed all the required packages and has set up the database
also successfully in mysql but now after doing all the hardwork when i
am trying to start the snort by writing the following
/usr/local/bin/snort -c /etc/snort/snort.conf

i get the following message ..i am unable to understand what i am
missing
bash: /usr/local/bin/snort: No such file or directory

and when i cd to directory structure ....it really do not exist...i hope
that is suppose to be created by snort during installation..


kindly help..i have wasted quite a time on that
pearl


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