installation-binary.rst

Binary Installation

On some systems a compatible compiler is not available, this leads to problems for the standard OSPatrol install method. To work around this OSPatrol supports being built on one system and installed on another.

Note

Due to the way OSPatrol is built the system compiling OSPatrol must be the same OS and CPU platform for this work correctly.

Compiling OSPatrol for install on a second server

First download the OSPatrol package corresponding to the version you want to install and unpack it (on the system with a compiler).

# wget http://www.ospatrol.net/files/ospatrol-hids-latest.tar.gz
# tar -zxvf ospatrol-hids-latest.tar.gz
# rm ospatrol-hids-latest.tar.gz

Enter in the source directory of the downloaded package and compile OSPatrol.

# cd ospatrol-*/src
# make setagent
# make all
# make build
# cd ../..

Modify ospatrol-hids-*/etc/preloaded-vars.conf to set BINARY_INSTALL to yes.

# echo "USER_BINARYINSTALL=\"y\"" >> ospatrol-hids*/etc/preloaded-vars.conf

Finally create an OSPatrol package.

# tar -cvzf ospatrol-binary.tgz ospatrol-hids*

Installation of the binary OSPatrol package

On the target system (that does not have a C compiler) download your ospatrol-binary.tgz created in the setups above.

# cd /tmp
# scp root@builder-server.example.com:/tmp/ospatrol-binary.tgz .

Complete the installation by unarchiving the binary package and running ./install.sh.

# tar xfvz ospatrol-binary.tgz
# cd ospatrol-*
# ./install.sh

After following the installation prompts your install will be complete.