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Compiling snort using --with-mssql

Posted by jvhaysx on March 23, 2005 12:21:15

I configured and compiled without errors but when I try starting
with:

/usr/local/bin/snort -T -i eth1 -c /usr/local/snort/etc/snort-eth1.conf

I get this error:
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ERROR: If this build of snort was obtained as a binary distribution (e.g., rpm,
or Windows), then check for alternate builds that contains the necessary
'mssql' support.

If this build of snort was compiled by you, then re-run the
the ./configure script using the '--with-mssql' switch.
For non-standard installations of a database, the '--with-mssql=DIR'
syntax may need to be used to specify the base directory of the DB install.

See the database documentation for cursory details (doc/README.database).
and the URL to the most recent database plugin documentation.
Fatal Error, Quitting..
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I used './configure --with-mssql' and got no errors during configure, make, or make install. It seems to me that '--with-mssql=DIR' would require some kind of MS SQL installation on the Linux box.

Any hints on this one? Thanks. - Jonathan

Posted by jvhaysx on March 23, 2005 12:26:20

Oops! I missed the first paragraph of the output:
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database: compiled support for ( )
database: configured to use mssql
database: 'mssql' support is not compiled into this build of snort
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It looks to me that although I used the --with-mssql switch in the configure step that it wasn't able to really compile MS SQL support into the build.

How do I fix this? Thanks. - Jonathan

Posted by mehner on March 31, 2005 07:45:52

Try installing the following and then recompile with --with-mysql

MySQL-shared-4.1.10a
MySQL-devel-4.1.10a
MySQL-client-4.1.10a

It makes sense that only the client portion would be required. However, I compiled with db sitting on the same server, so I installed addtional components and didn't bother to determine the exact requirements.