Re: Open Solaris & Snort

["Justin Heath" <justin.heath () gmail com>]

There should be no issues with running Snort on OpenSolaris.

Also, Snort runs just fine on FreeBSD.

Just make sure to read the INSTALL file that is bundled with the tarball.


Cheers,
Justin Heath

On 3/22/07, David.Ryan () quintiles com <David.Ryan () quintiles com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Quick question - is there any particular reason why Snort (and associated
> applications like BASE, etc . . .) shouldn't run on Open Solaris ?  I
> haven't tried yet, but if someone knows for sure that it doesn't then it
> would save time.  I understand there are some issues with other OSes like
> Free BSD for example which prevent it from running correctly.
>
> I already have it running on Fedore Core 4, but we are planning on moving
> platfoms in general to Open Solaris, so I wanted to check out the options.
>
> Thanks,
>
> David
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