Install Snort on FreeBSD
Step-By-Step instructions on how to Install snort on FreeBSD.
1. Login to your computer as root or elevate to su
2. First we have to compile snort form the ports tree by running this command:
make -C /usr/ports/security/snort install all
You will be asked about which support you want to add to snort here you can pick MySQL if you are
going to use the server as traffic monitor or instruction detection system. For me I took the defaults only
because I capture the files and export them to log file using snort –dev –l . /log then I read them
with tcpdump –r. But again it really depends on your needs.
3. Next you need oinkmaster to update your snort rules so run this command
make -C /usr/ports/security/oinkmaster install all
4. You can update your snort rules using this command:
oinkmaster -o /usr/local/etc/snort/rules/
5. If you decided to install MySQL you will need to create a database so login to mySQL
mysql -u root –p password
6. After you enter the root username and password you are going to be dropped to this prompt
mysql>
7. Type the following two commands
CREATE DATABASE `snort`;
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON snort.* TO ‘snort’@’localhost’ IDENTIFIED BY ‘snortpassword’;
8. Next control +C to exit mysql server you will now need to create the tables but lucky for us snort can do
that for you so type this command
mysql -u snort -psnortpassword snort < /usr/local/share/examples/snort/create_mysql
9. We need to uncomment 3 lines from the snort config file so run this command
Vi /usr/local/etc/snort/snort.conf
10. Then uncomment meaning remove the # from in front of the line
config detection: search-method lowmem
output alert_syslog: LOG_AUTH LOG_ALERT
output database: log, mysql, user=root password=test dbname=db host=localhost
11. If you want snort to run at startup type which if you’re running snort at either a traffic monitor or
instruction detection system you’re going to want to happen.
Vi /etc/rc.conf
12. Add this line
snort_enable=”YES”
Now restart your computer and snort will be running at startup and logging to MySQL.