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Snort Installation Log

The following is a log of the installation of the Snort package:

$ sudo port install snort
---> Fetching snort
---> Attempting to fetch snort-2.6.1.5.tar.gz from http://www.snort.org/dl/current/
---> Attempting to fetch snort-2.6.1.5.tar.gz from http://www.snort.org/dl/old/
---> Verifying checksum(s) for snort
---> Extracting snort
---> Applying patches to snort
---> Configuring snort
---> Building snort with target all
---> Staging snort into destroot
---> Installing snort 2.6.1.5_0
---> Activating snort 2.6.1.5_0


***** File locations *****


The Snort database schemas -> /opt/local/share/snort/schemas
The snort.conf sample file -> /opt/local/etc/snort/snort.conf.sample (rename to snort.conf)


NOTE: If you installed Snort using the +server variant, make sure you do not
change the location of the snort.conf file or the startup scripts
will not be able to find it.


---> Cleaning snort
$
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