Installing Snort

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A brief list of the contents of these directories is listed below:

  The  contrib directory contains utilities which are not strictly part of Snort

itself. These utilities include ACID, MySQL database creation scripts and other

things.

  The doc directory contains documentation files, as is evident from the name of

the directory. 

  The etc directory contains configuration files.

  The rules directory contains predefined rule files.

  All source code is present under the src directory.

  The  templates directory is useful only for people who want to write their

own plug ins. It has no significance for general Snort users.

2.2.2.2

Compiling and Installation

The compilation and installation process consists of three steps as listed below:

1. Running the configure script.

2. Running the make command.

3. Running the make install command.

To start the compilation process of Snort, go to /opt/snort 1.9.0 directory

and run the configure script. If you are new to GNU style software, the config 

ure script is a common utility with open source packages. It is used to set some param 

eters, create makefiles, and detect development tools and libraries available on your

system. Many command line options can be used with the configure script. These

options determine which Snort components will be compiled with Snort. For example,

using these options, you can build support of SNMP, MySQL or SMB alerts, in addition

to many other things. You can also determine the directory in which the final Snort files

will be installed. Available command line options with the configure script can be listed

using the  ./configure  help  command as shown below: