[Fwd: RE: Problem with compiling snort]

[Cedric Foll <cedric.foll () ac-rouen fr>]

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> From: "Grejda, Eric" <EGrejda () county allegheny pa us>
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> Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2003 10:10:36 -0500
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> When you just do a build of the Snort source code (by using the make
> utility), it installs everything under /usr/local.  Things won't be broken
> out into the Redhat directory structure you describe when you do that unless
> you start passing further options to the configure script to set that up.
> When you make an RPM file those options are set for you automatically.
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> I ran into the same problem you describe, and it's really easy to fix. If
> you change to the directory /usr/sbin and list all of the snort files (ls
> -alF snort*) you'll see two different copies of the Snort binary,
> snort-mysql and snort-plain.  snort is a symlink to snort-plain, by default.
> Change what the symlink points to: rm -f /usr/sbin/snort ; ln -s
> /usr/sbin/snort-mysql /usr/sbin/snort and try it again.  That's what I had
> to do when I was building RPMs.
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> By the way - great job on that.  It's made rolling Snort out on multiple
> systems much, much easier.
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> Eric Grejda
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> From: dunervst () gmx de [mailto:dunervst () gmx de] 
> Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2003 9:14 AM
> To: snort-users () lists sourceforge net
> Subject: [Snort-users] Problem with compiling snort
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> during the configure option it shows me that mysql support is ok. When i am
> done, there is nothing. No /etc/snort, no subsys/snort, no var/log/snort and
> no /usr/sbin/snort. There is really nothing. When i make a rpm of the tar
> file it is working, but i can´t use it with mysql. After rpmbuild i got 2
> Pakages snort and snort-mysql. I installed both but every time i restart
> snort it tells me that it can´t shut down the service. In the message log 
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> snort: database: 'mysql' support is not compiled into this build of snort
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> What does that error came from ? How to fix it. I tried to compile manually,
> but it is not working. My mysql server it up and running very well. Snort db
> and tables are created via the snort_db_install_script.
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