#1 stray line break

[Anonymous]

line 1585 in portsentry.c has a stray linebreak in it
that prevents compilation.

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I am having the same error with a fresh install of Slackware 10

"Making
cc -O -Wall -DLINUX -DSUPPORT_STEALTH -o ./portsentry
./portsentry.c \
./portsentry_io.c ./portsentry_util.c
portsentry.c:1584:11: missing terminating " character
portsentry.c: In function `Usage':
portsentry.c:1585: error: parse error before "sourceforget"
portsentry.c:1585: error: stray '\' in program
portsentry.c:1585:24: missing terminating " character
make: *** [linux] Error 1"

Any Ideas would be awesome.

[Nobody/Anonymous]

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I also had this problem.

I found that if you open the portsentry.c file and go to
line 1585 you will find that a printf statement has been cut
over two lines. The printf statment should be one long line
(I think)

printf ("Copyright 1997-2003 Craig H. Rowland <craigrowland
at users dot sourceforget dot net>\n")

[Nobody/Anonymous]

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ditto:

]# make generic
SYSTYPE=generic
Making
cc -O -Wall -o ./portsentry ./portsentry.c ./portsentry_io.c \
./portsentry_util.c
portsentry.c:1584:11: missing terminating " character
portsentry.c: In function `Usage':
portsentry.c:1585: error: syntax error before "sourceforget"
portsentry.c:1585: error: stray '\' in program
portsentry.c:1585:24: missing terminating " character
make: *** [generic] Error 1

[Nobody/Anonymous]

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I just edited out the line break and it worked great. The
documentation could be improved for installation though.

[Harv]

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Thanks for the comments!

Editing out the stray linebreak worked fine as well. It
IS in the copyright section (search for "copyright" in the
portsentry.c file and you'll see it)...

I also found a good installation reference at:
http://www.falkotimme.com/howtos/chkrootkit_portsentry/inde
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