Package: psad Version: 2.4.3-1 Severity: important Tags: newcomer Dear maintainer,
When installing psad over a fresh Debian (Stretch/Sid), the following message is shown: Setting up psad (2.4.3-1) ... Job for psad.service failed because the control process exited with error code. See "systemctl status psad.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details. invoke-rc.d: initscript psad, action "start" failed. * psad.service - LSB: Port Scan Attack Detector (psad) Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/psad; generated; vendor preset: enabled) Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Mon 2017-07-10 11:53:40 -03; 10ms ago Docs: man:systemd-sysv-generator(8) Process: 701 ExecStart=/etc/init.d/psad start (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE) Jul 10 11:53:40 debian-psad systemd[1]: Starting LSB: Port Scan Attack Detector (psad)... Jul 10 11:53:40 debian-psad psad[701]: [*] Could not find ifconfig, edit /etc/psad/psad.conf at /usr/sbin/psad line 10933. Jul 10 11:53:40 debian-psad psad[701]: Unable to start the daemon. Jul 10 11:53:40 debian-psad psad[701]: Starting Port Scan Attack Detector: psad failed! Jul 10 11:53:40 debian-psad systemd[1]: psad.service: Control process exited, code=exited status=1 Jul 10 11:53:40 debian-psad systemd[1]: Failed to start LSB: Port Scan Attack Detector (psad). Jul 10 11:53:40 debian-psad systemd[1]: psad.service: Unit entered failed state. Jul 10 11:53:40 debian-psad systemd[1]: psad.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'. dpkg: error processing package psad (--configure): subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: psad E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) The ifconfig command is needed to psad. Thanks! Regards, Eriberto