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Bug #1852

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Snort and IP-Block Installation/Deintsallation issue

Added by Darko Arandjelovic about 13 years ago. Updated almost 12 years ago.

Status:
Closed
Priority:
Normal
Assignee:
-
Category:
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Target version:
-
Start date:
09/07/2011
Due date:
% Done:

0%

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Affected Architecture:
All

Description

If you install snort, it replaces system Perl with Perl-multi-threaded. Once you remove snort it removes Perl-multi-threaded completely. So, you end up with a system w/o Perl on it.
As IP-Block uses a Perl to generate the ipfw.ipfw file, you end up with an empty ipfw.ipfw file, and non-functional IP-Block.
The work around is to manually install Perl with pkg_add after the removal of snort. It took me few hours to find out.
The fix would be for snort de-installation script to re-instate some version of Perl.
Tried on 2 systems (pfSense 2.0-RC3 – iso installation/no snapshot), both system behaved the same.

Darko

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