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Intrusion Detection With Snort, ACIDBASE, MySQL, And Apache2 On Ubuntu 9.04
This tutorial describes how to install and configure Snort intrusion detection system (IDS), ACIDBASE (Basic Analysis and Security Engine), MySQL, and Apache2 on Ubuntu 9.04 using packages from Ubuntu’s Synaptic Package Manager. Snort will assist you in monitoring your network and alert you about possible threats. Snort will output its log files to a MySQL database which ACIDBASE will use to display in a graphical interface in web browser.