i'm following the, "How to setup and secure Snort, MySQL and Acid on FreeBSD 4.6 Release" off of the snort.org website.

in the documentation it says snort should be installed through the following:

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make -DWITH_MYSQL -DWITH_FLEXRESP ; make install
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later it says to do the following:

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/usr/local/bin/mysql -p < /usr/ports/security/snort/work/snort-1.8.6/control create_mysql snort
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the problem is this, there is no "work/snort-1.8.6/create_mysql snort" under "/usr/ports/security/snort".

does anyone know what to do about this?

You simple find the file:

create_mysql_snort

or whatever the file name is and then do the same thing as instructed:

I already tried that. The file can't be located anywhere.

I didn't know that the ports directory would have anything other than: Makefile, Distinfo, pkg-comment, pkg-descr, pkg-plist

My suggestion would be to go to the Snort web site and join a Snort support group and ask for a copy of the file.

I assume you have seen this document on configuring Snort?

http://www.snort.org/docs/FreeBSD46R...ySQLVer1-2.pdf

Also,

Might be some clues here:

http://www.sans.org/rr/intrusion/ACID.php

Here is a link to the Snort support lists:

http://www.snort.org/lists.html

Here is a Snort support archives search result with keywords "configure mysql" :

http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=snor...gure+mysql&q=b

the resolution was a simple one.

i needed to enter the following command within /usr/ports/security/snort

make expand

this gave me all the directories that were needed.

how i'm having another issue.

when i try to start apache the way they want me to, apachectl start (or restart), i get the following error:

/usr/local/sbin/apachectl start: httpd could not be started

i have no clue where to begin. i checked the path in the script to see if it was pointing to the proper location for httpd, and it is. so i'm completely confused.

The key to starting apache is a properly configured httpd.conf file, normally located in /usr/local/apache/etc

I just double checked on my FreeBSD 4.5 system and found http.conf under /usr/local/etc/apache/.

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