Bug 177874

Summary:	net-analyzer/snort incorrect instructions (DB schemas compression)
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Richard Scott <gentoo.bugs>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Netmon project <netmon>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	trivial
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	169772

Description Richard Scott 2007-05-09 22:58:50 UTC

In the final instructions for installing snort you are told to run the following to create a DB in MySQL:

zcat /usr/share/doc/snort-2.6.1.4/schemas/create_mysql.gz | mysql -p snort"

This won't work as the file is not a gzip file and you need to use the following:

bzcat /usr/share/doc/snort-2.6.1.4/schemas/create_mysql.bz2 | mysql -u snort -p snort

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-05-10 06:08:25 UTC

The file shouldn't be compressed at all, preferably; bzcat is not a solution for people w/ PORTAGE_COMPRESS="gzip"

Comment 2 Richard Scott 2007-05-10 11:24:03 UTC

I totally agree. I was just pointing out that it looked to be wrong to me as the two didn't match up.

My system has no PORTAGE_COMPRESS set, so what's the default PORTAGE_COMPRESS if you don't set it?

I can't see it referenced in either /etc/make.conf or /etc/make.conf.example :-(

Comment 3 Daniel Black (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-05-20 02:27:05 UTC

will be fixed to refer to bzcat when i add 2.6.1.5

Comment 4 Daniel Black (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-05-20 08:27:49 UTC

included in ebuild draft for next version. bug #178606