Package: snort Version: 2.3.2-2 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch /var/lib/dpkg/info/snort.templates: | Template: snort/interface ... | Description: On which interface(s) should Snort listen? | Please enter the interface(s) name(s) which snort should listen on. The name | of the available interfaces are provided by running 'ip link show'.
This advice is only helpful if I happen to have installed the right net-admin package; and as a way of showing available interfaces, /sbin/ip (in iproute, Priority: optional) has no obvious advantage over /sbin/ifconfig (in net-tools, Automatically installed: yes, Priority: important). There are also some grammar problems in the phrases "the interface(s) name(s)" and "the name [...] are provided". Here's a patch: --- snort.templates.old 2005-03-29 01:13:49.000000000 +0100 +++ snort.templates.new 2005-04-25 12:51:03.000000000 +0100 @@ -42,8 +42,8 @@ Type: string Default: eth0 Description: On which interface(s) should Snort listen? - Please enter the interface(s) name(s) which snort should listen on. The name - of the available interfaces are provided by running 'ip link show'. + Please enter the name(s) of the interface(s) which snort should listen on. + The names of the available interfaces are displayed by /sbin/ifconfig. This value usually is 'eth0', but you might want to vary this depending on your environment, if you are using a dialup connection 'ppp0' might be more appropiate. -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i586) Kernel: Linux 2.6.10.hurakan Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Versions of packages snort depends on: ii adduser 3.63 Add and remove users and groups ii debconf 1.4.30.13 Debian configuration management sy ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-20 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libpcap0.8 0.8.3-5 System interface for user-level pa ii libpcre3 4.5-1.1 Perl 5 Compatible Regular Expressi ii logrotate 3.7-2 Log rotation utility ii snort-common 2.3.2-2 Flexible Network Intrusion Detecti ii snort-rules-default 2.3.2-2 Flexible Network Intrusion Detecti ii sysklogd [system-log-daemon 1.4.1-16 System Logging Daemon -- debconf information excluded -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
