RE: More snort problems - I cant find snort.conf

[Francesca Milanini <francesca.milanini () fastwebnet it>]

Hello, I have got this problem today. I use Debian. 
Try to install snort-common! 
I don't know why, but today I found my "snort.conf", only after
installing "snort-common" too. 
Francesca

On Tue, 2002-07-09 at 15:34, McCammon, Keith wrote:
> Well, first of all, you're much better off downloading snort and installing from the source code.
>
> 1) Download from www.snort.org, gunzip snort.tar.gz, tar -xf snort.tar, and you're left with a directory containing 
> the source.
>
> 2) Move it to /usr/local, or wherever you want.
>
> 3) Change to the source directory, and do ./configure, make, make install.  This is also in the USAGE file.
>
> 4) Install done.  Now create a logging directory, and you're all set.
>
> Now just read the docs, and run Snort with the appropriate command-line arguments--use the full path to all binaries 
> and config files.
>
> Also, not that it's any of my business, you don't sound all that comfortable with the operating system itself.  This 
> is surely slowing you down and causing some frustration.  Learn FreeBSD first, then move on to securing it, 
> scripting, etc., then start the IDS work.  Once you get Snort running, you're going to have a bear of time testing 
> and tweaking without some knowledge of BSD scripting for shortcuts.  For example, while I concur that the package 
> does install things in some backwards, useless places, you can find everything you need with a simple "find / -name 
> "snort*" -print" and run as is.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Cheers
>
> Keith  
> --------------------------------------------------------
> 1. I cant find snort.conf (or any snort file for that matter)
>
> 2. Permissions?
>
> I made a directory called snort in /var/log to see if it would fix it and then I did the command snort  -h 
> 172.16.0.1/10 -c snort.conf -l/snort/ -dev
> still an error message!  
>
>
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