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Chapter 2     Installing Snort and Getting Started

    prefix=PREFIX         install architecture independent 

                          files in PREFIX

                          [/usr/local]

A typical session with the configure scripts may be as follows. Output is trun 

cated after displaying the initial output line to save space. Note the options that have

been enabled on the command line.

[root@conformix snort 1.9.0]#  ./configure   prefix=/opt/snort 

  enable smbalerts   enable flexresp   with mysql   with snmp 

  with openssl

loading cache ./config.cache

checking for a BSD compatible install... (cached) /usr/bin/

install  c

checking whether build environment is sane... yes

checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... (cached) yes

checking for working aclocal... found

checking for working autoconf... found

checking for working automake... found

checking for working autoheader... found

checking for working makeinfo... found

checking for gcc... (cached) gcc

checking whether the C compiler (gcc  ) works... yes

checking whether the C compiler (gcc  ) is a cross compiler... 

no

checking whether we are using GNU C... (cached) yes

checking whether gcc accepts  g... (cached) yes

checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... (cached) none 

needed

checking for ranlib... (cached) ranlib

Output is truncated at the end because the configure script may create a lot of

information. The prefix option on the command line is used to tell the configure

script the location of final installation directory.  Other options are used to enable the

following components of Snort:

  Support of MySQL database.

  Support of SNMP traps.

  Support of SMB alerts. SMB alerts are used to send pop up windows to

Microsoft Windows machines.

  Enable support of flex response. Flex response is used to terminate network

sessions in real time. More information about flex response will be provided in

the following chapters. Note that to enable support of this option, you must