Re: Snort 2.9.9.0 Compile Flag Documentation

["Joel Esler \(jesler\) via Snort-users" <snort-users () lists snort org>]

Jim,

Those options are only for a very specific type of customer that wants to use shared memory and a control socket for 
resets.  

Not your atypical installation for most.  

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> On Jun 13, 2017, at 20:50, Jim Campbell <jim () w4bqp net> wrote:
>
> I built Snort using the cookbook at http://sublimerobots.com/2017/01/snort-2-9-9-x-ubuntu-installing-snort/
>
> In the configure step it said "./configure --enable-sourcefire" which I did. Several pages later while testing my 
> configuration I began to get an error message about a socket problem. After bumbling around for a while I discovered 
> something that said if you were experiencing socket problems Snort needed to be configured with --enable-shared-rep 
> and --enable-control-socket. I did that and no more socket problems. Maybe that could be added to the first page.
>
> Jim Campbell
>
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