On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 11:38:59AM -0600, Kenzo wrote:
> I was trying to install snort following the instructions on a doc on snort's
> website.
> http://www.snort.org/docs/FreeBSD46...MySQLVer1-2.pdf
> 
> Anyways, I get to the point where I have to type
> " /usr/local/bin/mysql -p <
> /usr/ports/security/snort/work/snort-1.8.6/contrib/create_mysql snort"
> 
> I get the error message that the directory doesn't exist. I go the the port
> and it doesn't have the work dir there.
> 
> If I do " /usr/local/bin/mysql -p <
> /usr/ports/security/snort/contrib/create_mysql snort"
> then it goes thru, but when I log in mysql and list the tables, I have
> nothing.
> 
> I did exactly what the tutorial said to do, what am I missing?
> Oh yea, I'm using Fbsd 4.7 and snort 1.8.7 from ports.

Well, for starters the snort 1.8.7 work subdirectory is called
snort-1.8.7 not snort-1.8.6, but if the entire work directory is
missing then you've omitted a step where you 'cd
/usr/ports/security/snort; make all install' to actually build and
install snort.

Kris

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