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Top Forums UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers Macos is the UNIX? Post 303040174 by Neo on Thursday 24th of October 2019 11:17:50 AM

10-24-2019

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Originally Posted by dodona

its true that MacOS is more "unix-like' than Linux because of UNIX certification. On the other hand totally unrelated Z/OS, BS2000 and other proprietary mainframe OS'ses also have posix certification. That's it and that's all either.

Under the hood MacOS keeps the user far away from the BSD cellar. The typical macos user runs very proprietary gui apps on very proprietary hardware, and only a small minority installing UNIX related services, libraries, X11, vi, emacs and so on, however that's not part of the MacOS culture, which is more windows a-like restricted, limited, not to say even worser capitalism than M$. Furthermore MacOS hat nothing to do with the classic UNIX approach of free and open, sharing and open community. Just the opposite is true. Running MacOS is like Ricky Rich living on a lonely island.

That's really nonsense.

Sorry.

I use UNIX tools on MacOS every day and so do most MacOS users I know.

Just because MacOS has a great GUI, does not mean that the underlying Darwin OS is "not good" and "not UNIX"..... just because MacOS has a great UI, that has nothing to do with the underlying OS, which is as much "UNIX" as is any other modern "UNIX" OS.

I will close the thread, per the forum rules.

I don't have time to moderate "MacOS is NOT really UNIX" nonsense.

Of course MacOS is based on UNIX and, as a matter of great fact... the largest UNIX user base in the world at this time, and for the past many years, are MacOS users.

Closing comment:

Arguing "OS Purity" is no different, or little different, than arguing "ethic purity" ... or "racial purity" ..... it is a divisive discussion with no purpose other than to be divisive.

That is why we have a long established forum rule to not have these kinds of "religious" and "divisive" discussions here at unix.com.

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Rule (2) No negative comments about others or impolite remarks. Be patient. No BSD vs. Linux vs. Windows or similar negative threads.

This rule certainly includes "OS purity" kind of divisive discussions and negative, biased opinions about operating systems.

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prads2snort

PRADS2SNORT(1)							    networking							    PRADS2SNORT(1)

NAME

       prads2snort - Snort autotuning of Frag3 and Stream5

SYNOPSIS

	  prads2snort -i /var/log/prads-asset.log -o /etc/snort/host_attributes.xml -d linux -v

DESCRIPTION

       PRADS is a Passive Real-time Asset Detection System.

       It  passively  listen to network traffic and gathers information on hosts and services it sees on the network. This information can be used
       to map your network, letting you know what services and hosts are alive/used, or can be used together with your favorite IDS/IPS setup  for
       "event to host/service" correlation.

       Gathering  info about your hosts in real-time, will also let you detect assets that are just connected to the network for a short period of
       time, where a active network scan (nmap etc.) would take long time, and not common to run continually, hence missing the asset.

       The initial goal of implementing PRADS, was to make the host_attribute_table.xml for Snort (automatically).

       PRADS2SNORT is the tool that does this!

OPTIONS

       -i,--infile <file>
	      file to feed prads2snort.pl

       -o,--outfile <file>
	      file to write host_attribute data to (host_attribute.xml)

       -d,--default <os>
	      set Default OS if unknown (linux,bsd,macos,windows)

       -v, --verbose
	      prints out OS, frag, stream and confidence of asset

       -h, --help
	      this help message

       --version
	      show prads2snort.pl version

PROBLEMS

       1. Better mapping of less used apps to their correct snort attributes or drop them.

SEE ALSO

       o PRADS <http://prads.projects.linpro.no/>

       o p0f <http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/p0f.shtml>

       o PADS <http://passive.sourceforge.net/>

       o Snort <http://snort.org>

       o Sguil <http://sguil.net>

       o Hogger <http://code.google.com/p/hogger/>

BUGS

       Report bugs here:

       o http://github.com/gamelinux/prads/issues

       For general questions:

       o http://projects.linpro.no/mailman/listinfo/prads-devel

       o http://projects.linpro.no/mailman/listinfo/prads-users

AUTHOR

       edwardfjellskaal@gmail.com

COPYRIGHT

       GPL

0.2								    2010-06-21							    PRADS2SNORT(1)