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Chapter 2     Installing Snort and Getting Started

    41  ALERT_FILE_OLD=$LOG_DIR/alert.old

    42  ADDRESS="255.255.255.255"

    43

    44  clear

    45

    46  echo "###############################################################"

    47  echo "#            Script to test Snort Installation                #"

    48  echo "#                       Written By                            #"

    49  echo "#                                                             #"

    50  echo "#                     Rafeeq Rehman                           #"

    51  echo "#                  rr@argusnetsec.com                         #"

    52  echo "#           Argus Network Security Services Inc.              #"

    53  echo "#               http://www.argusnetsec.com                    #"

    54  echo "###############################################################"

    55  echo

    56

    57  echo

    58  echo "###############################################################"

    59  echo "The script generates three alerts in file /tmp/alert"

    60  echo "Each alert should start with message like the following:"

    61  echo

    62  echo "      \"ATTACK RESPONSES id check returned root\" "

    63  echo "###############################################################"

    64  echo

    65

    66  if [ !  d $LOG_DIR ]

    67  then

    68     echo "Creating log directory ..."

    69     mkdir $LOG_DIR

    70

    71     if [ $?  ne 0 ]

    72     then

    73        echo "Directory $LOGDIR creation failed"

    74        echo "Aborting ..."

    75        exit 1

    76     fi

    77  fi

    78

    79  if [  f $ALERT_FILE ]

    80  then

    81     mv  f $ALERT_FILE $ALERT_FILE_OLD

    82

    83     if [ $?  ne 0 ]

    84     then

    85        echo "Can t rename old alerts file."

    86        echo "Aborting ..."

    87        exit 1

    88     fi

    89  fi

    90

    91  if [ !  f $SNORT ]

    92  then