sniffit

[Eric Van Buskirk]

I read your message, George, just as I had finished installing the rpm.  It
appears to be installed now.  I had to force an older version of ncurses
onto my machine.

It is good to have it installed, but I don't feel as good about it as I
could.  Just as I don't like being spoon fed by Bill Gates, I don't like
being spoonfed by rpm.  Hence I wish I knew why it would not work the
old-fashioned way.

I would like to get a job working with Linux someday, and when the boss is
relying on you, 'tis not very cool to say that I cannot work with xyz unless
I have the rpm.  Know what I mean?

Eric




> -----Original Message-----
> From: plug-discuss-admin@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
> [mailto:plug-discuss-admin@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us]On Behalf Of George
> Toft
> Sent: Sunday, July 01, 2001 11:10 AM
> To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
> Subject: Re: 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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