Information about the package, fwsnort, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The fwsnort package is designed for, Translates Snort rules into equivalent iptables rules.
Package Name:
fwsnort
Summary:
Translates Snort rules into equivalent iptables rules
Description:
fwsnort translates Snort rules into equivalent iptables rules and generates a Bourne shell script that implements the resulting iptables commands. In addition, fwsnort (optionally) uses the IPTables::Parse module to parse the iptables ruleset on the machine to determine which Snort rules are applicable to the specific iptables policy. fwsnort is able to translate approximately 60% of all rules from the Snort-2.3.3 IDS into equivalent iptables rules.
Architecture:
noarch
Version:
1.6.4
Release:
1.el6
Size:
925 k
Repository:
epel
From Repository:
Licence:
GPLv2+
Control the fwsnort package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install fwsnort
This command will install fwsnort on the server.
yum remove fwsnort
This command will un-install fwsnort on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove fwsnort, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove fwsnort
This command will un-install fwsnort on the server. When you run this command with th e -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove fwsnort when using the -y flag.
yum update fwsnort
This command will update fwsnort to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove fwsnort, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update fwsnort
This command will update fwsnort to the latest version. When you run this command with the -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove fwsnort when using the -y flag.
yum info fwsnort
This command will show you core information about the fwsnort package.
yum deplist fwsnort
This command will show you the dependencies for fwsnort. Thankfully, when using Yum, if dependencies are required, these are also installed at the same time so you don't have to worry too much about that.
yum check-update fwsnort
This command will check if there is an update waiting on fwsnort. When you run this command this will return nothing if there is nothing to update, or, will return the package name if the package is due to be updated.