Comments on Installation & Configuration Of Intrusion Detection With Snort, ACIDBASE, MySQL, And Apache2 On Ubuntu 9.04 Using SPM

honestly, if you're too blind to see the r in that needs to be removed, what the hell are you doing installing and configuring snort in the first place?

<user>r@localhost, what is this r used for?

Please proof-read and correct your syntax in section 4.1. 

i think there is more to it than obvious syntax typos. thats ok, we all should review those thing. but the archive user isnt working more importantly in mysql. shrugs...

please i have a problem with data bases, look at this result :

database:          host = localhost
database:   sensor name = 192.168.201.136
database: mysql_error: Table 'db.sensor' doesn't exist
database: mysql_error: Table 'db.sensor' doesn't exist
SQL=INSERT INTO sensor (hostname, interface, detail, encoding, last_cid) VALUES ('192.168.201.136','eth0',1,0, 0)
database: mysql_error: Table 'db.sensor' doesn't exist
database: Problem obtaining SENSOR ID (sid) from db->sensor
ERROR:
 When this plugin starts, a SELECT query is run to find the sensor id for the
 currently running sensor. If the sensor id is not found, the plugin will run
 an INSERT query to insert the proper data and generate a new sensor id. Then a
 SELECT query is run to get the newly allocated sensor id. If that fails then
 this error message is generated.

 Some possible causes for this error are:
  * the user does not have proper INSERT or SELECT privileges
  * the sensor table does not exist

 If you are _absolutely_ certain that you have the proper privileges set and
 that your database structure is built properly please let me know if you
 continue to get this error. You can contact me at ([email protected]).

Fatal Error, Quitting..

Copy & paste from the tutorial is a bad practice, so always type by yourself. I hope that will help you.