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I normally install programs with yum but I have to download barnyard as a requisite for snort to detect instrusion attempts.
I downloaded barnyard and ran ./configure, make, make install, etc.
Where does the program get installed? I was running this as root so does it install it into /root/barnyard?
I have something in /usr/local/bin/barnyard - is that it?
I normally install programs with yum but I have to download barnyard as a requisite for snort to detect instrusion attempts.
Note you can run Snort perfectly w/o Barnyard. It's only needed if you choose unified logging which is more efficient and faster than plain text logging.
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Originally Posted by qwertyjjj
I downloaded barnyard and ran ./configure, make, make install, etc.
Where does the program get installed? I was running this as root so does it install it into /root/barnyard?
I have something in /usr/local/bin/barnyard - is that it?
As a rule of thumb build packages or run "./configure, make" as unprivileged user to maintain integrity of the machine, not as root. Running "./configure --help" in any sane package should show a "--prefix=/usr/local" which you can also confirm by running "make -n install|grep sr/lo" ("-n" meaning --dry-run).
Note you can run Snort perfectly w/o Barnyard. It's only needed if you choose unified logging which is more efficient and faster than plain text logging.
As a rule of thumb build packages or run "./configure, make" as unprivileged user to maintain integrity of the machine, not as root. Running "./configure --help" in any sane package should show a "--prefix=/usr/local" which you can also confirm by running "make -n install|grep sr/lo" ("-n" meaning --dry-run).
If I run it as an unprivileged user then later when the program wants to run, some programs won;t run unless the files have user:group set to root so why not just install as root?
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