Installing sarg on freebsd 4 firewall

[macxsanity]

hello good people ... have been searching the net high and low for a tutorial on instaling SARG on Freebsd 4 firewall any of you guys have any good linnks ?









I hate MS windows wiffffffff ................a passion .............

 

[morkhans]

hello good people ... have been searching the net high and low for a tutorial on instaling SARG on Freebsd 4 firewall any of you guys have any good linnks ?

FreeBSD 4 is no longer supported for ports or security, you need to upgrade to FreeBSD 7 or 8. http://www.freebsd.org/releng/

 

[fixx]

morkhans is right, using FreeBSD 4 is a bad idea, its ancient.
I haven't been using FreeBSD for a long time, but something like this might do the trick, or at least get you going in the right direction. :erm:

cd /usr/ports/*/sarg

Then edit /usr/local/etc/sarg/sarge.conf and change it to fit your needs and run sarg as root from the cli.

Hope that help :/

 

[macxsanity]

thank you all for your pointers instaed of upgrading thw whole firewall box i am thinking of installing ntop on it i know ntop has the same level of functionality and reporting and sarg .................

 

[morkhans]

thank you all for your pointers instaed of upgrading thw whole firewall box i am thinking of installing ntop on it i know ntop has the same level of functionality and reporting and sarg .................

At this point I might suggest getting an IT support company involved, but as with my suggestion and the post from fixx that too might fall on deaf ears. My guess is the hardware hails from a similar age as the OS, in which case not only is your OS a liability but the hardware is as well. Have you got backups? Can you afford downtime should your firewall die? Can someone rebuild it within an acceptable amount of time? These are the questions you should probably be asking.

SARG and NTOP are two different things. Again, good luck installing the current port of NTOP on FreeBSD 4.

 

[fixx]

morkhans is right, using FreeBSD 4 is a bad idea, its ancient.
I haven't been using FreeBSD for a long time, but something like this might do the trick, or at least get you going in the right direction. :erm:



Then edit /usr/local/etc/sarg/sarge.conf and change it to fit your needs and run sarg as root from the cli.

Hope that help :/

I forgot the make install part, not that it will be used anyways...

I normally use CentOS for client firewalls and proxy servers. I don't use all these pre built stuff like ipcop and pfsesnse and all those 'solutions', instead I prefer to use the configs I have built up over the years for iptables filtering, squid etc.

I would suggest to get someone who knows what they are doing to assist you in reinstalling the firewall with a proper OS (FreeBSD is a proper OS but has to be kept current and updated like most other OS's out there).

Note, like morkhans said, ntop and sarg arn't nearly the same thing. sarg is a tool that reports on browsing and works with squid proxy server, ntop is a network traffic analizer.