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Old 09-20-2006, 10:42 PM   #1
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Portsentry installation


-i have a problem installing portsentry. i downloaded the lates version of portsentry from sourceforge in linux desktop.
-i went to the terminal window and extract portsentry. once extracted i went to the portsentry folder and type make then a message appear to install i should use "make install". once i type make install it copies the files to its directory but an error showed saying that "./portsentry no such file or directory. where could that be?
 
Old 09-21-2006, 03:16 PM   #2
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Just a quick check - you're doing the 'make install' portion as root, correct?
 
Old 09-21-2006, 07:17 PM   #3
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Portsentry is unmaintained and AFAIK unsupported. In short it's deprecated and flawed.
Please consider Snort, Prelude or similar.
 
Old 09-22-2006, 01:43 AM   #4
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-yes i am using root.
-yes i am also trying snort. so portsentry is nolonger unsupported and so not adviseable?
 
Old 09-22-2006, 01:55 AM   #5
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SBN prefer to download stuff from your distrubution's repositires , via synaptic , kpackage or other appropriate programme so you may save yourself from dependencies problem as well... moreover it is advisible to choose a programme that is being maintained so i strongly suggest you to download either portsentry or similar product from repository
what repository aka repo
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repository
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Package_management
hope it helps
 
Old 09-22-2006, 02:05 AM   #6
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SBN prefer to download stuff from your distrubution's repositires , via synaptic , kpackage or other appropriate programme so you may save yourself from dependencies problem as well... moreover it is advisible to choose a programme that is being maintained so i strongly suggest you to download either portsentry or similar product from repository
what repository aka repo
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repository
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Package_management
hope it helps
 
  


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