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Problem Installing Snort on Redhat 9

Posted by pamelam on November 15, 2005 11:35:15

Hello ppl,
I tried installing snort on RedHat 9 but when I give the command (#snortd start)it shows :
Starting snort [FAILED].
I cant understand whats wrong .I even got mysql-3.23.54a-11 rpms=>client ,devel and server (3.23 is on my machine)but it did not help.Can any body help me in this. Its a bit urgent..
Pamela

Posted by gbobeck on November 15, 2005 11:36:24

I usually DON'T respond to off-topic posts, but today I'm in a good mood.

You aren't going to like the following...

Get rid of those RPM's and install from source.

MySQL 3.X is no longer supported. Download MySQL 4 or 5 (which are current) from http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/

The same goes for Snort... install it from source. Be sure to have all of the depenencies installed.

That should fix most of the problems you are encountering

Now, if you want to go one giant step further, switch away from Red Hat 9 (unsupported for at least 2 years, way outdated and slow) and use Gentoo Linux instead. The portage versions of MySQL and Snort work perfectly fine and are current.

Hope that helps a bit.

*disclaimer* I am biased against Red Hat. I dislike RPMs (which most of them are created on a 386). I use Gentoo Linux and FreeBSD. I manage many Gentoo boxen.

Posted by sf_web on November 15, 2005 11:37:30

Topic split, please remember to start new threads when posting something off-topic to the original post.

Richard