Re: Gentoo Linux Snort Users

[Jason Wallace <jason.r.wallace () gmail com>]

Billy,

"as the patch fails when emerging the new ebuild" which patch are you
referring to?

/usr/lib64/dynamicrules is empty because the so_rules are not shipped
with the snort package. That directory is the drop zone for the SO
rules you should pull with pulledpork.

Wally

On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 4:19 PM, NA <dustypath () comcast net> wrote:
> Thank you very much for your work, I was just lamenting this morning over a
> new install of 2.9.03 that FPs all over the place compared to 2.9.0.4!
>
> I am having trouble though as the patch fails when emerging the new ebuild.
> I was having trouble with dynamic detection already, the directory
> /usr/lib64/dynamicrules is empty and attempts to build the so_rules fails
> with a segfault (probably because of the empty directory, nothing to work
> on). I will post a bug report at bug.gentoo.org unless you have any insight
> that this is my screw up!
>
> Thanks again
>
> Bill B
> > Howdy!
> >
> > Just wanted to give an update on the current Snort ebuild and the
> > ebuilds for some snort related packages.
> >
> > Snort-2.9.0.4
> > This was committed to portage this afternoon, so it should hit the
> > mirror near you in the next 24-48 hrs. The ebuild was delayed due to a
> > bug we found when trying to compile with the dynamicplugins USE flag
> > disabled. The Sourcefire folks provided a patch for this.
> >
> > The ebuild is currently stable for amd64 and unstable for x86. The
> > unstable is due to the prelude package being unstable. I'm considering
> > yanking support for Prelude from the ebuild. This is something that
> > should be handled by Barnyard2 anyways. If you are violently opposed
> > to dropping Prelude support, then shoot me an email. Also, I will
> > likely drop the ipv6 USE flag in the next version and hard code in
> > ipv6 support. This is due to the difference between ipv4 and ipv6 and
> > how that affects ipvar/portvar and var.
> >
> > I've gotten a number of emails from Gentoo folks looking for
> > config.log and build.log when working bugs with SF. Since the build
> > environment gets cleaned up after the package is installed these were
> > not available. With the 2.9.0.4 ebuild you can now find both of these
> > files in the "support" directory in the package's doc directory.
> >
> > daq-0.5
> > This ebuild is currently stable for amd64 and unstable for x86. This
> > will likely stabilize when Snort does. This version does not have the
> > buffer_size_mb fix in it. I'll roll an -r1 version to include this fix
> > some time soon.
> >
> > Barnyard2-1.9
> > This ebuild is marked unstable for both amd64 and x86. The ebuild is
> > fairly new, that is why it is not stabilized yet. There are some
> > issues with this ebuild. It currently only supports the database
> > output plugins and those plugins that get compiled by default. The is
> > no ipv6 support. Barnyard2 currently does not compile with
> > --enable-ipv6. I've bugged this upstream.
> >
> >
> > The above are all in the main portage tree. The following packages
> > have been committed to the Sunrise Overlay
> > (http://overlays.gentoo.org/proj/sunrise). I'm working with the dev's
> > to get these into the main distro tree, but they live in Sunrise for
> > now.
> >
> > Pulledpork-0.5
> > No known issues.
> >
> > daemonlogger-1.2.1
> > No known issues. Supports both tap and logging mode in the init scripts.
> >
> > hogger-2.1
> > No known issues.
> >
> > If you want to help out with any of these packages or you just want
> > access to them before they are committed to the trees, you can add my
> > Github repository as an overly https://github.com/wally3514/Gentoo.
> > This is a development space so YMMV.
> >
> > thx,
> > Wally
> >
> >
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