[ale] Trying to setup snort on FC3

[Nathan J. Underwood]

Awesome,  that'll be my next move!!  Thanks for the info!

Chris Ricker wrote:

>On Fri, 27 May 2005, Nathan J. Underwood wrote:
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>>that's had yum update ran on it.  My original preference for installing
>>software (on a RH / FC) box is to use available RPM's, but the snort folks
>>seem to frown on that, so I'm going the source route.
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>"official" snort rpms are currently undergoing review for going into 
>Fedora extras
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>the only caveat with snort from rpm is that snort has lots of optional 
>features that you may or may not want and that may not or may be turned on 
>by default in whatever rpm you use. Getting the src.rpm and tweaking will 
>probably work best
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>>So, I downloaded
>>snort-2.3.3.tar.gz from the snort website, and got started.  The ./configure
>>script started running, but complained that there was no Libpcre header
>>(checking for pcre.h presence, no).
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>yum install pcre-devel
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>later,
>chris
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