Ladies & Gents,

I installed snort and acidbase. At the time I did not realize that mysql-server was required. So I added that after the fact. Now I am having issues with the database for acidbase. The first time I tried to install acidbase it asked for some passwords and what not but because mysql-server was not installed the install failed. After I figured out what happened and installed mysql-serever it still did not work. So I tried dpkg-reconfigure acidbase with no joy then I purged acidbase and reinstalled but I did not get as many questions as the first time.

In order to get any output I had to manually create a user and database but I am still having issues. Now it is complaining about a corupted database or one that does not exist.

How do I regenerate the default database? A brief look on google has not as of yet told me how.

Thanks

rbees,

This install guide is based on Fedora Core 2 (pretty old), but if you start on page 10, I think it has all of the instructions that you need. I have used this same setup on RHEL 5, and it server me well. Every time I have installed Snort, I have never found a totally comprehensive guide. Guides get you most of the way there, but that is the FUN of Linux...figuring it out!

HTH!!

http://www.rootsecure.net/content/do...de_fedora2.pdf

Thanks netnix99

I will be looking it over when I get a chance. I did get it figured out most of the way. It took some looking but I finally figured out that I needed to install snort-mysql to get the database. I am not sure that I have the config right yet as i am not getting anything logged. Of coarse the machine is still in the building stage and not connected directly to the internet so no one is actually trying to crack it.

I think selinux is also creating issues. But we will get there.

Thanks