Tripwire installation fails

hondo · 03-21-2007, 05:53 PM

Hi

I have been reading about tripwire and i think its seems like a great tool. So, i decided to download the open source version, configure it and compile it which went fine.

However, when i was going to install it using "make install" i get this error and i cant really figure out why:

Code:

/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games:/usr/libexec -oi -t does not exist.  Exiting.
make[3]: *** [install-data-hook] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/tmp/tripwire/tripwire-2.4.1.1'
make[2]: *** [install-data-am] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/tmp/tripwire/tripwire-2.4.1.1'
make[1]: *** [install-am] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/tripwire/tripwire-2.4.1.1'
make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1

Something tells me that libexec is missing and is required, but when i type this:
"locate libexec"
..then it gives me this output:
/usr/lib/php5/libexec

So, how do i proceed from here or what am i suppose to do to get tripwire installed? I really appericate all help.

gilead · 03-21-2007, 08:12 PM

The steps I followed to install Tripwire are here at http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...93#post2035193. Did you have any errors/warnings during the configure or make steps?

hondo · 03-23-2007, 10:01 AM

Thanks for answering gilead. No, i didnt have any errors during configuration or compile time.

gilead · 03-23-2007, 02:15 PM

OK, the options -oi and -t are for sendmail. You should be able to create a link to sendmail in one of those locations so that the install script can find it and continue. For example, when installing the Calamaris log parser here, I Had to run the following for it to work:

Code:

ln -s /usr/sbin/sendmail /usr/lib/sendmail

hondo · 03-27-2007, 01:58 PM

Hey, thanks for possible solution to the problem, ill check it out

..I have to ask you though, how did you find out that this line:
/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games:/usr/libexec -oi -t does not exist. Exiting.

..had anything to do with sendmail? Does sendmail use libexec..

gilead · 03-27-2007, 02:08 PM

I recognised the -oi -t part. It looks like it was trying to find the sendmail executable with a sub-shell and build a command line to execute with the options, kind of like `which sendmail` -oi -t. However the sub-shell didn't find the executable and returned the string you saw - the list of paths it checked for the sendmail executable.