A host based IDS

rojoraider82 · 12-14-2006, 05:07 AM

Ok, so I was going to use Snort until it wouldn't load properly. Is there something else out there that will work just as easy that is open source so i can watch for intrusion attempts. Any help would be great. If you do know of something, could you post some step by step installation instructions. I followed the snort ones exactly but Linux didn't like it. I would post the responses I received, but I'm not at that system at the moment.

Thank you in advance................

acid_kewpie · 12-14-2006, 05:17 AM

snort is far far away the market leader here, so stick with it, and ask for help about it.

rojoraider82 · 12-14-2006, 07:09 AM

I know for sure that I have used "tar -xvf file_to_unpack.tar" so maybe I should use "tar -xzf file_to_unpack.tar.gz -C /directory_to_extract_to" ????

Do I need to type something before it on the command line?

Thanks in advance.

acid_kewpie · 12-14-2006, 07:21 AM

you hadn't even got that far??? ok, what distro are you using? chance are there are prebuilt packages you can just drop in and fire up in seconds.

unSpawn · 12-15-2006, 05:25 AM

Moved: This thread is more suitable in the Linux Software forum (taxonomy: +software +"installation problem" -"security issue") and has been moved accordingly to help your thread/question get the exposure it deserves.