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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