ports/70814: Snort port installation clobbers local.rules file

Jez Hancock jez.hancock at munk.nu
Sun Aug 22 07:10:04 UTC 2004


>Number:         70814
>Category:       ports
>Synopsis:       Snort port installation clobbers local.rules file
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-ports-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          maintainer-update
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sun Aug 22 07:10:03 GMT 2004
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Jez Hancock
>Release:        FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE i386
>Organization:
n/a
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD users.munk.nu 4.8-STABLE FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE #1: Fri Apr 18 14:38:46 BST 2003 root at users.munk.nu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/MUNKBOXEN i386

>Description:
The snort port installation overwrites the file %%DATADIR%%/local.rules
(usually /usr/local/share/snort/local.rules) which is commonly used to
override globally set rules with machine specific local rules.

>How-To-Repeat:
>Fix:
Some amendment to the port installation process to check for existence
of local.rules file first before copying the file over.
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:



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