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More info?)
Many thanks, Moe, for the info.
"Moe Trin" <ibuprofin@painkiller.example.tld> wrote in message
news:slrndh1che.sfk.ibuprofin@compton.phx.az.us...
> In the Usenet newsgroup comp.security.firewalls, in article
> <77-dnWSpu9AbH5LeRVn-uw@rogers.com>, Doug Fox wrote:
>
>>It is more a Linux question that a firewalk or firewall quesiton!
>
> and probably would be more apropos in comp.os.linux.misc, or possibly
> alt.os.linux.suse - but what-ever
>
>>My knowledge about Linux is extremely primitive.
>
> http://ibiblio.org/pub/linux/docs/HOWTO/
>
http://en.tldp.org/HOWTO/HOWTO-INDEX/howtos.html
>
> http://ibiblio.org/pub/linux/docs/linux-doc-project/
>
http://tldp.org/guides.html
>
> Two places (at two sites) you should be familiar with. Older versions of
> the HOWTOs may be stashed on your system (/usr/share/HOWTO/ perhaps),
> but that _alone_ is about 470 documents - the equivalent of 12,000 pages.
> The LDP guides are 25 or so full sized books, available for free download
> in various print formats.
>
>>I am trying to install Firewalk at root, i.e., \root\firewalk on a SuSE
>>9.2 machine.
>
> Unusual location. If you 'echo $PATH' as root, you will see what is in
> the PATH. I'd rather doubt that /root/firewalk is - though /root/bin
> might be. Normally, something like that would go into /usr/local/sbin/.
>
> SuSE 9.2 is a version behind (9.3 came out in March), and 10.0 is in at
> least the third beta release.
>
>>Prior to its installation, I installed Libnet at root., i.e.,
>>\root\libnet, as firewalk's pre-requisite.
>
> Better learn that UNIX (and friends, that includes Linux) uses the other
> slash as a path separator. None the less, /root/libnet is a HIGHLY
> unusual location. Libraries are more likely to go to /lib/, /usr/lib/,
> and perhaps (in this case) /usr/local/lib/.
>
>>At the end of the ./configure, the program "complained" that it could not
>>find libnet!
>
> Not surprising. See the 'Filesystem Hierarchy Standard' available from
> http://www.pathname.com/fhs/. See also the 'Linux-Filesystem-Hierarchy'
> which is an LDP guide.
>
>>Should I need to add a "path" to the "environment" so that Firewalk could
>>find it. If it is the case, what are the steps?
>
> Did you read the ./configure and ./Makefile* to see where things are
> expected to be? Did you read the documentation that came with the
> tarball?
>
>>Any pointers are greatly appreciated.
>
> As a newbie, you should be staying more with the packages that are
> supplied
> with your distribution (in this case SuSE 9.2). Packages (.rpm) that are
> specifically built for SuSE 9.2 are probably acceptable as well. Other
> pre-built packages may be for other versions of SuSE (I'd avoid anything
> built for versions earlier that 9.0), and for other distributions (such
> as Debian, Fedora, Gentoo, Mandrake/Mandriva, Red Hat and Slackware, and
> clones thereof) may not work for you because of incompatibilities between
> distributions (files in non-standard places) and releases (different
> library
> versions). Tarballs can work, though no where near as easy (and thus not
> for the newbie), and these bypass the package manager which may cause
> dependencies problems.
>
> Old guy
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