Re: [Devil-linux-develop] abort fixed ...

[Heiko Z. <he...@zu...>]

Bruce Smith wrote:
>>>There could be a few more places where it is this way, but some of them 
>>>need it.
>>
>>I'll finish this run with the current options and see if it aborts in
>>any other places.
> 
> 
> I had another abort on my limited selection config.
> 
> Snort aborted because it couldn't find MySQL (not selected).
> I selected & compiled MySQL, restarted make build, and it finished.
> 
> Why is MySQL required for Snort?

You can modify the script if you want, so it's optional.

It is used for logging into a MySQL DB, which can be used by most Snort 
Frontends.

Heiko