Re: [Snort-users] Compiling with mysql & mssql support

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All,

I tried compiling with '--with-mssql' and it didn't complain, or at least
not that I saw. When I tried to compile previously without the relevant
mysql-devel bits it complained loudly, so I expected it to do the same if
there was something missing from the mssql environment.

However, when I went to run snort it complained that this version wasn't
compiled with mssql support. It then suggested adding the switch (which I
already did) or adding the database path, but in this instance the
database is held elsewhere so I don't think the path concept would apply.
Error message follows -
May 1 23:13:34 localhost snort[23378]: Daemon initialized, signaled
parent pid: 23377
May 1 23:13:34 localhost snort[23378]: database: 'mssql' support is not
compiled into this build of snort
May 1 23:13:34 localhost snort[23378]: FATAL ERROR: If this build of
snort was obtained as a binary distribution (e.g., rpm, or Windows), then
check for alternate builds that contains the necessary 'mssql' support. If
this build of snort was compiled by you, then re-run the the ./configure
script using the '--with-mssql' switch. For non-standard installations of
a database, the '--with-mssql=DIR' syntax may need to be used to specify
the base directory of the DB install. See the database documentation for
cursory details (doc/README.database). and the URL to the most recent
database plugin documentation.

I read through README.database as suggested in the error message but I
didn't see anything that helped in this case.

Does anyone know of any step by step stuff for getting snort and mssql
working ? I know I should be getting snort to write unified output to
barnyard and not directly to the database, but
1) this is a proof of concept environment at the moment - I just want to
get it working first and *then* optimise it
2) from what I have found to date barnyard doesn't have a plugin for mssql

Thanks for any suggestions.

David
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Quintiles, Global IT - Infrastructure, QDUB

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 All,
 
 I tried compiling with '--with-mssql'
and it didn't complain, or at least not that I saw.  When I tried
to compile previously without the relevant mysql-devel bits it complained
loudly, so I expected it to do the same if there was something missing
from the mssql environment. 
 
 However, when I went to run snort it
complained that this version wasn't compiled with mssql support.  It
then suggested adding the switch (which I already did) or adding the database
path, but in this instance the database is held elsewhere so I don't think
the path concept would apply.  Error message follows -
 May  1 23:13:34 localhost snort[23378]:
Daemon initialized, signaled parent pid: 23377
 May  1 23:13:34 localhost snort[23378]:
database: 'mssql' support is not compiled into this build of snort
 May  1 23:13:34 localhost snort[23378]:
FATAL ERROR: If this build of snort was obtained as a binary distribution
(e.g., rpm, or Windows), then check for alternate builds that contains
the necessary 'mssql' support.  If this build of snort was compiled
by you, then re-run the the ./configure script using the '--with-mssql'
switch. For non-standard installations of a database, the '--with-mssql=DIR'
syntax may need to be used to specify the base directory of the DB install.
 See the database documentation for cursory details (doc/README.database).
and the URL to the most recent database plugin documentation.
 
 I read through README.database as suggested
in the error message but I didn't see anything that helped in this case.
 
 Does anyone know of any step by step
stuff for getting snort and mssql working ?  I know I should be getting
snort to write unified output to barnyard and not directly to the database,
but
 1) this is a proof of concept environment
at the moment - I just want to get it working first and *then* optimise
it
 2) from what I have found to date barnyard
doesn't have a plugin for mssql
 
 Thanks for any suggestions.
 
 David
 ================================= 
David Ryan 
IT Security Engineer, Global IT Security 
Quintiles, Global IT - Infrastructure, QDUB 
 
david.ryan@quintiles.com 
v:  +353-1-819-5186, GMT+0 
m: +353-87-124-9108 
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