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and subject line Bug#512810: fixed in snort 2.8.4.1-4
has caused the Debian Bug report #512810,
regarding snort is a disaster
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Package: snort
Version: 2.8.1-2
The state of snort is basically a disaster. I don't know what you guys are
trying to do with it, but the way you have set it up with your convoluted
configuration and initialization scripts has not helped make the package more
stable, easy to use, or better. What it has done is make it extremely brittle
and prone to failure. At this point, on a clean, fresh install of snort it
fails to start. After digging through bug reports via google I read about
setting ALLOW_UNAVAILABLE="no" in /etc/default/snort to "yes". Well, all this
does is create a situation where now when /etc/init.d/snort start is invoked
it claims to start but still fails. There is no error output whatsoever.
There appear to be no options anywhere, in the mess of debianized config files,
to enable debug logging or to even indicate where its supposed to be logging
daemon status-type messages.
My question is - why do you need to create such a twisted, convoluted set of
scripts and config files to run this? It seems like Debian is departing
markedly from its original way of being a more basic operating system that kept
things reasonably close to straightforward and basic, with minimal obfuscation
of the source packages. Now you have set up this whole config/init system
which overrides and deprecates many things in the daemon's own config files.
For example, you have the interface defined in /etc/snort/snort.debian.conf.
What is the purpose of this file? Are you aware that /etc/snort/snort.conf
already has a place to define the interface/IP addresses that snort will listen
on. This is plain retarded. I do not think Debian maintainers should, as a
policy, *ever* be allowed to superceed a daemon's own configuration file
options, regardless of how much they think doing so is an improvement.
At any rate, the current state of snort is "critical" or "severe" because it
fails to complete the install, and even with the workaround in
/etc/default/snort it still fails to launch, with no log/debug output
whatsoever.
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Source: snort
Source-Version: 2.8.4.1-4
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
snort, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:
snort-common-libraries_2.8.4.1-4_i386.deb
to pool/main/s/snort/snort-common-libraries_2.8.4.1-4_i386.deb
snort-common_2.8.4.1-4_all.deb
to pool/main/s/snort/snort-common_2.8.4.1-4_all.deb
snort-doc_2.8.4.1-4_all.deb
to pool/main/s/snort/snort-doc_2.8.4.1-4_all.deb
snort-mysql_2.8.4.1-4_i386.deb
to pool/main/s/snort/snort-mysql_2.8.4.1-4_i386.deb
snort-pgsql_2.8.4.1-4_i386.deb
to pool/main/s/snort/snort-pgsql_2.8.4.1-4_i386.deb
snort-rules-default_2.8.4.1-4_all.deb
to pool/main/s/snort/snort-rules-default_2.8.4.1-4_all.deb
snort_2.8.4.1-4.diff.gz
to pool/main/s/snort/snort_2.8.4.1-4.diff.gz
snort_2.8.4.1-4.dsc
to pool/main/s/snort/snort_2.8.4.1-4.dsc
snort_2.8.4.1-4_i386.deb
to pool/main/s/snort/snort_2.8.4.1-4_i386.deb
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to [email protected],
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Javier Fernandez-Sanguino Pen~a <[email protected]> (supplier of updated snort
package)
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Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2009 01:35:05 +0200
Source: snort
Binary: snort snort-common snort-doc snort-mysql snort-pgsql
snort-rules-default snort-common-libraries
Architecture: source i386 all
Version: 2.8.4.1-4
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Javier Fernandez-Sanguino Pen~a <[email protected]>
Changed-By: Javier Fernandez-Sanguino Pen~a <[email protected]>
Description:
snort - flexible Network Intrusion Detection System
snort-common - flexible Network Intrusion Detection System [common files]
snort-common-libraries - flexible Network Intrusion Detection System ruleset
snort-doc - Documentation for the Snort IDS [documentation]
snort-mysql - flexible Network Intrusion Detection System [MySQL]
snort-pgsql - flexible Network Intrusion Detection System [PostgreSQL]
snort-rules-default - flexible Network Intrusion Detection System ruleset
Closes: 512810 540450 545082 547316
Changes:
snort (2.8.4.1-4) unstable; urgency=low
.
* Fix init.d so that if 'restart' is executed when no instance is
running (no pidfile) it will try to start all of instances, just
if 'start' was executed. (Closes: #540450)
* Add information on how the init.d script works (Closes: #512810)
* Fix name of file in README-database.Debian, remove the database
information from the main README.Debian file.
* Fix bug in debian/clean-sources.sh script (Closes: #547316)
* Use a patch provided by Dave Walker <DaveWalker_AT_ubuntu.com>
to prevent starting snort-mysql|pgsql if the database is not configured
yet. This bug cannot be really fixed until we use dbconfig-common
here to ask for all the database information to the user
through Debconf. (LP: #222091) (Closes: #545082)
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