Setting up snort

I'm doing a project for a class, and I keep running into an issue. The professor and tutor are unable to help. I entered the following commands to install snort onto Ubuntu: (DAQ was already installed)

sudo apt-get install libluajit-5.1-2 libluajit-5.1-common libluajit-5.1-dev luajit
sudo apt-get install libdumbnet-dev
wget
tar xvzf snort-2.9.12.tar.gz
cd snort-2.9.12
./configure --enable-sourcefire --disable-open-appid
make
sudo checkinstall
sudo dpkg -i snort_2.9.12-1_amd64.deb
sudo ln -s /usr/local/bin/snort /usr/sbin/snort
sudo ldconfig -v
snort -V # used to test snort
cd -

I then downloaded the snort rules snapshot, and ran the following commands:

cd
cd Downloads
sudo mkdir -p /etc/snort
sudo tar -xvzf snortrules-snapshot-29110.tar.gz –C /etc/snort/
sudo touch /etc/snort/rules/white_list.rules
sudo touch /etc/snort/rules/black_list.rules
sudo mkdir /usr/local/lib/snort_dynmicrules
sudo mv /etc/snort/etc/* etc/snort 

but when I enter the last command sudo mv /etc/snort/etc/* etc/snort, I get the following error message:

mv: target 'etc/snort' is not a directory

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1 Answer

The last command is incorrect. You are getting the mv: target 'etc/snort' is not a directory error message because etc/snort is not a directory, but /etc/snort is a directory. The last command should be:

sudo mv /etc/snort/etc/* /etc/snort

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