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Author: George Toft
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Subject: sniffit
Hi Eric,

Since you are using Red Hat, why not just install the sniffit RPM?
It's much faster, although you don't get to experience the joys of
building from the sources.

George


Eric Van Buskirk wrote:
>
> Hi ALL
>
> For epistemic reasons only, I am trying to install sniffit on my RH 7.1.
> It's not going to well, as you can see from the error log below. I
> downloaded the file from
> <http://reptile.rug.ac.be/~coder/sniffit/sniffit.html>. I also added the
> associated patch. I then did "./configure"; then "make". Upon "make", I
> received error messages. If anyone could offer some suggestions, I would
> appreciate it. (PS--My network is a *home* network, so any packets I read
> will be my own. :-)).
>
> I tried to continue after the errors with "make install-sh" and "./make
> install-sh" but the former returns a message "nothing to be done for
> install-sh". Has anyone ever worked with this program?
>
> By the way, what is the best way to send error messages to a log file when
> using make? Thanks a lot!
>
> [root@Shitty sniffit.0.3.5]# make
>
> gcc -w -O2 -c
>
> sn_generation.c -I./libpcap-0.3 -L./libpcap-0.3 -DHAVE_LIBNCURSES=1 -DHAVE_N
> CURSES_H=1 -DHAVE_SHMGET=1 -DHAVE_ATEXIT=1 -DSIZEOF_UNSIGNED_SHORT_INT=2 -DS
> IZEOF_UNSIGNED_LONG_INT=4 -DLINUX=1
> gcc -w -O2 -c
>
> sn_interface.c -I./libpcap-0.3 -L./libpcap-0.3 -DHAVE_LIBNCURSES=1 -DHAVE_NC
> URSES_H=1 -DHAVE_SHMGET=1 -DHAVE_ATEXIT=1 -DSIZEOF_UNSIGNED_SHORT_INT=2 -DSI
> ZEOF_UNSIGNED_LONG_INT=4 -DLINUX=1
> gcc -w -O2 -c
> sn_cfgfile.c -I./libpcap-0.3 -L./libpcap-0.3 -DHAVE_LIBNCURSES=1 -DHAVE_NCUR
> SES_H=1 -DHAVE_SHMGET=1 -DHAVE_ATEXIT=1 -DSIZEOF_UNSIGNED_SHORT_INT=2 -DSIZE
> OF_UNSIGNED_LONG_INT=4 -DLINUX=1
> gcc -w -O2 -c
>
> sn_logfile.c -I./libpcap-0.3 -L./libpcap-0.3 -DHAVE_LIBNCURSES=1 -DHAVE_NCUR
> SES_H=1 -DHAVE_SHMGET=1 -DHAVE_ATEXIT=1 -DSIZEOF_UNSIGNED_SHORT_INT=2 -DSIZE
> OF_UNSIGNED_LONG_INT=4 -DLINUX=1
> cd libpcap-0.3; make; cd ..
> make[1]: Entering directory `/root/sniffit.0.3.5/libpcap-0.3'
> gcc -O2 -I. -Ilinux-include -DHAVE_MALLOC_H=1 -DHAVE_ETHER_HOSTTON=1 -DHAVE
> _STR ERROR=1 -c ./pcap-linux.c
> gcc -O2 -I. -Ilinux-include -DHAVE_MALLOC_H=1 -DHAVE_ETHER_HOSTTON=1 -DHAVE
> _STR ERROR=1 -c ./pcap.c
> gcc -O2 -I. -Ilinux-include -DHAVE_MALLOC_H=1 -DHAVE_ETHER_HOSTTON=1 -DHAVE
> _STR ERROR=1 -c ./inet.c
> gcc -O2 -I. -Ilinux-include -DHAVE_MALLOC_H=1 -DHAVE_ETHER_HOSTTON=1 -DHAVE
> _STR ERROR=1 -c ./gencode.c
> gcc -O2 -I. -Ilinux-include -DHAVE_MALLOC_H=1 -DHAVE_ETHER_HOSTTON=1 -DHAVE
> _STR ERROR=1 -c ./optimize.c
> gcc -O2 -I. -Ilinux-include -DHAVE_MALLOC_H=1 -DHAVE_ETHER_HOSTTON=1 -DHAVE
> _STR ERROR=1 -c ./nametoaddr.c
> gcc -O2 -I. -Ilinux-include -DHAVE_MALLOC_H=1 -DHAVE_ETHER_HOSTTON=1 -DHAVE
> _STR ERROR=1 -c ./etherent.c
> gcc -O2 -I. -Ilinux-include -DHAVE_MALLOC_H=1 -DHAVE_ETHER_HOSTTON=1 -DHAVE
> _STR ERROR=1 -c ./savefile.c
> gcc -O2 -I. -Ilinux-include -DHAVE_MALLOC_H=1 -DHAVE_ETHER_HOSTTON=1 -DHAVE
> _STR ERROR=1 -c ./bpf_filter.c
> gcc -O2 -I. -Ilinux-include -DHAVE_MALLOC_H=1 -DHAVE_ETHER_HOSTTON=1 -DHAVE
> _STR ERROR=1 -c ./bpf_image.c
> flex -Ppcap_ -t scanner.l > $$.scanner.c; mv $$.scanner.c scanner.c
> bison -y -p pcap_ -d grammar.y
> mv y.tab.c grammar.c
> mv y.tab.h tokdefs.h
> gcc -O2 -I. -Ilinux-include -DHAVE_MALLOC_H=1 -DHAVE_ETHER_HOSTTON=1 -DHAVE
> _STRERROR=1 -c ./scanner.c
> gcc -O2 -I. -Ilinux-include -DHAVE_MALLOC_H=1 -DHAVE_ETHER_HOSTTON=1 -DHAVE
> _STRERROR=1 -Dyylval=pcap_lval -c grammar.c
> ar rc libpcap.a pcap-linux.o pcap.o inet.o gencode.o optimize.o nametoaddr.o
> etherent.o savefile.o bpf_filter.o bpf_image.o scanner.o grammar.o
> ranlib libpcap.a
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/sniffit.0.3.5/libpcap-0.3'
> gcc -w -O2 -o sniffit sniffit.0.3.5.c sn_packets.o sn_generation.o
> sn_interface.o sn_cfgfile.o
> sn_logfile.o -I./libpcap-0.3 -L./libpcap-0.3 -lpcap -lncurses -DHAVE_LIBNCU
> RSES=1 -DHAVE_NCURSES_H=1 -DHAVE_SHMGET=1 -DHAVE_ATEXIT=1 -DSIZEOF_UNSIGNED_
> SHORT_INT=2 -DSIZEOF_UNSIGNED_LONG_INT=4 -DLINUX=1
> strip sniffit
>
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