Re: command line options...

[Joel Esler <jesler () sourcefire com>]

On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 5:56 PM, waldo kitty <wkitty42 () windstream net>wrote:

> On 9/24/2010 11:21, Russ Combs wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 9:44 PM, waldo kitty <wkitty42 () windstream net
> > <mailto:wkitty42 () windstream net>> wrote:
> >
> >     On 9/23/2010 20:22, Russ Combs wrote:
> >      >
> >      > On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 5:34 PM, waldo kitty wrote:
> >      >
> >      >     On 9/23/2010 16:22, Jefferson, Shawn wrote:
> >      > > It's definitely in the config.log in the directory where you ran
> >      >     configure/make if you still have that around.
> >      >
> >      >     yes, actually, i do still have that on the devel box with its
> >      >     "unique" build environment... thanks to you and others who
> have
> >      >     responded... i was hoping that there was a command line option
> >      >     so that those who get/use pre-compiled versions of snort would
> >      >     have a method of listing them...
> >      >
> >      > You can also run:
> >      >
> >      > pkg-config --cflags snort
> >
> >     i don't have pkg-config available in my environment...
> >
> > http://pkgconfig.freedesktop.org/releases/
>
> dunno about this... the environment i work in is a very stripped firewall
> distribution... even the development stuff is very stripped with just
> enough of
> the necessary stuff to build its own tool chain, compile its apps/libs and
> create its installation ISOs... while adding stuff to it is "fairly"
> trivial, it
> doesn't always work but that depends on what that stuff is...
>
> thanks for the pointer, though... i may come in handy one day...
>
> >      > etc.  If snort.pc is in an unusual place, set this:
> >
> >     however, i do have this snort.pc file and was looking at it
> earlier... i can say
> >     that it is much easier to read in raw format than config.log ;)
> >
> >     so, can you or anyone else say what the defaults are in snort if none
> of the
> >     "VRT recommended compile options" are used?
> >
> >
> > ./configure --help should hint at which are enabled / disabled.  For
> example:
> >    --enable-ipv6            Enable IPv6 support
> >    --disable-corefiles      Prevent Snort from generating core files
> >
> > indicate that ip6 is disabled by default and corefiles are enabled by
> default.
>
> nonononono... i was speaking of what snort gets compiled with as default
> when no
> --enable-blah stuff is specified... /that's/ what i consider "default"...
> having
> to add --enable-blah stuff is customized ;)
>
> > However, that being just help text, you are better off examining
> configure.log
> > or snort.pc for the definitive answer.
>
> yes... but it shows what is passed... not what the base defaults are
> without
> --enable-blah stuff...
>
> anyway, back to trying to figure out why we now have three snort processes
> when
> we used to only have one... we're testing these compile time options...
>
>   --enable-gre
>   --enable-mpls
>   --enable-targetbased
>   --enable-decoder-preprocessor-rules
>   --enable-ppm
>   --enable-perfprofiling
>   --enable-zlib
>   --enable-reload

You have three because of the reload option.  (I thought it was two tho,
maybe Russ can answer back).

J



> previously, there were no --enable-blah options passed... the memory
> footprint
> usage is also a bit more than we had before but we'll get to that as we
> move
> thru our testing and digging ;)
>
>
>
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