Re: Uninstalling Snort

["Randal T. Rioux" <randy () procyonlabs com>]

Groundhog Day already?

On 11/15/2012 5:02 PM, k vijay sai prashanth wrote:
> Hello Everyone,
>
> I was using snort version 2.8.6 and RHEL 5. I've read that 2.8.6 is
> obsolete and that 2.9.3.1 requires libpcap 1.0 or higher for which rpm
> is not availabe for RHEL 5. I am planning to upgrade to RHEL 6. Is that
> the only solution? I have 4 servers across different locations and
> upgrading to RHEL 6 is going to be a lot of effort. Please advise. Is
> there a simple way to upgrade RHEL to RHEL 6 or keep the RHEL
> installation and upgrade only snort to Snort 2.9.3.1.
>
> For now I am looking to delete the whole database of snort, snort logs,
> and all the files created for snort. How can I do this?
>
> Regards,
> Prashanth
> Information Security Analyst
>
>
> On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 3:30 AM, k vijay sai prashanth
> <vijaysaiprashanth () gmail com <mailto:vijaysaiprashanth () gmail com>> wrote:
>
>     Hello Everyone,
>
>     I was using snort version 2.8.6 and RHEL 5. I've read that 2.8.6 is
>     obsolete and that 2.9.3.1 requires libpcap 1.0 or higher for which
>     rpm is not availabe. I am planning to upgrade to RHEL 6. Is that the
>     only solution? I have 4 servers across different locations and
>     upgrading to RHEL 6 is going to be a lot of effort. Please advise.
>     Is there a simple way to upgrade or keep the installation and
>     upgrade snort. 
>
>     For now I am looking to delete the whole database or snort, snort
>     logs, and all the files created for snort. How can I do this?
>
>     Regards,
>     Prashanth
>     Information Security Analyst

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