Ubuntu Gutsy-Gibbon on the brain? Looking to set up a solid defense with Intrusion Detection Snort, MySQL and more? HowToForge has a great guide from a contributor, Devilman:
In this tutorial I will describe how to install and configure Snort (an intrusion detection system (IDS)) from source, BASE (Basic Analysis and Security Engine), MySQL, and Apache2 on Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon). Snort will assist you in monitoring your network and alert you about possible threats. Snort will output its log files to a MySQL database which BASE will use to display a graphical interface in a web browser.
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