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The bro Portfile 57375 2009-09-10 08:16:41Z ryandesign macports.org $

PortSystem 1.0

Name: bro
Version: 1.2
Revision: 1
Category: net security
Platform: darwin
Maintainers: pmq

Description: BRO is a Network Intrusion Detection System
Long Description: Bro is an open-source, Unix-based Network Intrusion Detection System (NIDS) that passively monitors network traffic and looks for suspicious activity.

Homepage: http://bro-ids.org
Master Sites: ftp://bro-ids.org
distname bro-${version}
Checksums: sha1 fbafd2568be1e1c1cad9a92e5051e728b0a0b046 rmd160 a7cbf4992b69d4ca49d842f99d61d3f6d6de5679

livecheck.type regex
livecheck.url ${homepage}/download.html
livecheck.regex "${master_sites}/bro-(\[0-9a-z.\]+)-stable${extract.suffix}"

# use the system-provided flex
depends_lib port:libpcap port:bison port:openssl path:bin/perl:perl5

configure.pre_args --prefix=${prefix}/share/bro
configure.args --infodir=${prefix}/share/info --mandir=${prefix}/share/man --bindir=${prefix}/bin --libdir=${prefix}/lib --enable-brov6

post-activate {
ui_msg "You'll need to set your BROHOME to ${prefix}/share/bro and your BROPATH to ${prefix}/share/bro/site:${prefix}/share/bro/policy to use the provided policies)."
}

If you haven't already installed Darwin Ports, you can find easy instructions for doing so at the main Darwin Ports page.
Once Darwin Ports has been installed, in a terminal window and while online, type the following and hit return:

%  cd /opt/local/bin/portslocation/dports/bro
%  sudo port install bro  
Password: 

You will then be prompted for your root password, which you should enter. You may have to wait for a few minutes while the software is retrieved from the network and installed for you. Y ou should see something that looks similar to:

--->  Fetching bro
--->  Verifying checksum for bro
--->  Extracting bro
--->  Configuring bro
--->  Building bro with target all

--->  Staging bro into destroot

--->  Installing bro

- Make sure that you do not close the terminal window while Darwin Ports is working. Once the software has been installed, you can find further information about using bro with these commands:

%  man bro
%  apropos bro
%  which bro
%  locate bro

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