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ITel Shamim
ITel Shamim

Reputation: 11

snort installation error on centos 6.5

[root@localhost ~]# service snortd start
Starting snort: /usr/sbin/snort: error while loading shared libraries: libdnet.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
[FAILED]

But libdnet is installed:

root@localhost ~]# rpm -qa libdnet
libdnet-1.11-1.2.el6.rf.x86_64

Upvotes: 1

Views: 3577

Answers (1)

El_Tel
El_Tel

Reputation: 41

I had a similar problem using snort-2.9.6.2-1.centos6.x86_64.rpm downloaded from snort.org.

yum install snort-2.9.6.2-1.centos6.x86_64.rpm would not work because it needed version 1.11-1.2.el6 and the current version is 1.12-6.el6 so I had to download the rpm and from http://pkgs.repoforge.org/libdnet. After installing that my snort would install.

That aside I see you are already using the right version but it still doesn't work. So try this

# find / -name 'libdnet*'
/usr/lib64/libdnet.so.1.0.1
/usr/lib64/libdnet.so.1
# cd /usr/lib64
# ln -s libdnet.so.1.0.1 libdnet.1

Snort should now start assuming everything else such as the conf files are set up ok

Upvotes: 4

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