Re: Fixes for autosnort users as well as all Debian 6 and CentOS 6.3 snort report users

[Tony Robinson <deusexmachina667 () gmail com>]

No worries, Waldo sorry if I came off as defensive or terse in my responses.

So what this boils down to is, if I were to do a search for all "<?"
strings, and either via sed or other means, modified all instances of "<?"
to "<?php" would that resolve the need to change the short_open_tags option
in php.ini?

On Sat, Dec 1, 2012 at 7:07 PM, waldo kitty <wkitty42 () windstream net> wrote:

> On 12/1/2012 12:12, Tony Robinson wrote:
> > my replies below yours:
>
> inline? great! that's the way it /should/ be ;) ;)
>
> > On Sat, Dec 1, 2012 at 11:38 AM, waldo kitty wkitty42 () windstream net
> > wrote:
> >     why not just fix the short open tags to proper long tags?
> >
> > 1. Sorry, I did NOT write snort report. I'm just posting what I had to
> do to
> > make it work. I had to do a bit of research on the web to figure this
> out, and
> > apparently I wasn't the first one <
> http://seclists.org/snort/2012/q3/1101> to
> > run into this problem.
>
> no need to apologize... i wasn't aware of exactly what the problem was but
> i'm
> aware of this particular problem over the entire industry... i really wish
> that
> the php folks had not introduced this so called feature... it promotes
> what i
> call "lazy coder" syndrome ;)
>
> i'm sure there are hundreds of thousands of similar reports of "problems"
> related to the use of this "feature"... it does also cause problems with
> xml
> unless one knows about it and codes specifically to handle it...
>
> >     and here again... why not make the change in the code so it is never
> a problem
> >     any more instead of requiring everyone else to change their
> configurations?
> > See reply to answer 1 above. the script I provide installs snort
> report.. I did
> > not write snort report nor have any affiliation with symmetrix, the
> creators of
> > that front end. I do not know PHP well enough to do what you suggest,
> nor am I a
> > memeber of the snort report team.  I'm posting a solution to a problem
> others
> > have had. outside of scripting in BASH in terms of programming I'm a
> lame duck
> > and will own up to it. A lot of the researching and testing I did was my
> first
> > dive into PHP.
>
> understood... my apologies if it seemed like i was bashing you or otherwise
> being ugly or offensive... it was an honest question :)
>
> FWIW: short tags in php are mainly related to using the lead-in "<?"
> instead of
> "<?php"... so they (the "lazy coders") are only saving 3 characters for
> each php
> code start... nothing else is changed...
>
> >      > chcon -R -t httpd_sys_rw_content_t snortreport-1.3.3/
> >
> >     that command doesn't look right... or is chcon a new command like
> chown and
> >     chmod??
> >
> > chcon man page entry http://linux.die.net/man/1/chcon
> >
> > tl; dr: chcon is to change SELinux permissions on a file/directory
> recursively.
> > We're changing permissions on the snortreport-1.3.3 directory to allow
> the
> > apache process the ability to read/write to files in this directory;
> We're
> > telling SELinux that this is expected behavior and to not interfere.
>
> ahh... it is something i am not familiar with and it is specific to
> SELinux...
> not a problem there... when i saw it i thought it might have been a typo
> so had
> to ask ;)
>
> > when does reality end? when does fantasy begin?
>
> that's a hard pair of questions... some might ask "what is reality?" -=B-)
>
>
>
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