Bug 218674

Summary:	Snort Package Fails Installation
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Chris Taylor <chtaylo3>
Component:	snort	Assignee:	Dennis Gilmore <dennis>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Fixed In Version:	2.6.1.1-4	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Description Chris Taylor 2006-12-06 18:34:07 UTC

Description of problem:
Package incorrectly installs /usr/lib/snort/dynamicengine/libsf_engine.so as the
file /usr/lib/snort/dynamicengine

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
snort-2.6.0.2-2.fc5.i386.rpm

How reproducible:
See steps below

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Load FC5 for i386
2. D/L and install snort rpm.
3. file /usr/lib/snort/dynamicengine
  
Actual results:
It's a lib file

Expected results:
Should be the directory with the file libsf_engine.so inside it.

Additional info:
Numerous people have been unable to get this package to work correctly (please
see the snort newbies forums).  Please verify that it works correctly via
setting it up on a local lan with 2 other computers and verify that you can get
snort to detect a nmap portscan from one computer against another.

Comment 1 Michael Schwendt 2006-12-19 20:37:18 UTC

Looks like "EasyFix". The spec contains this,

install libsf_engine.so %{buildroot}%{_libdir}/snort/dynamicengine
install libsf_engine.so.0 %{buildroot}%{_libdir}/snort/dynamicengine
install libsf_engine.so.0.0.0 %{buildroot}%{_libdir}/snort/dynamicengine

which would fail in the described way when the target is not a directory.

Comment 2 Chris Taylor 2006-12-21 19:38:49 UTC

I built snort from source on a FC5 machine and I was able to get snort to log
portscans from nmap.  Unfortunately, when I had previously loaded the FC snort
package on my FC5 box it was unable to detect the portscans (same config files).
 I  made an attempt to correct the issue above by manually renaming the file but
it appeared there might be some other non-trivial problem that is preventing the
packaged version snort from logging (my build from source works just fine with
the same config file).

Any thoughts on this issue?

Comment 3 Dennis Gilmore 2007-01-01 22:35:53 UTC

Dynamic engine is now fixed.  and the build was able to detect a port scan.