Re: Messed up debian install of snort

[Thomas Templin <templin () gnuwhv de>]

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On Wednesday 20 August 2003 16:32, Thomas Bechtold wrote:
> On Wednesday 20 August 2003 04:20, Ryan Wenck wrote:
> >   Anyway to fix this so it will make the default snort.conf
> > again?  I know it did it the first time i installed it and I
> > don't know why it's not just doing it again.
>
> Test at the console the command:
> dpkg --purge snort
>
> This will delete snort _and_ delete the configuration-files from
> snort. Snort must be installed to do this. After this command
> snort is deleted and you can install snort again.
apt will do the job too:
apt-get --purge remove snort

And 
apt-get install snort
or if you added unstable URL to /etc/apt/sources.list:
apt-get install snort/unstable

BTW. it might be a good idea to save a copy of original config 
files before changing them. ;o)

Bye,
Thomas
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