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Port details on branch 2026Q1
snortsam Output plugin for Snort
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Deprecated DEPRECATED: dead upstream, broken on FreeBSD 15
Expiration Date EXPIRATION DATE: 2026-03-31
Maintainer: urisso@bsd.com.br search for ports maintained by this maintainer
Port Added: 2026-01-21 23:57:15
Last Update: 2026-01-21 23:55:19
Commit Hash: 7c9b895
License: not specified in port
WWW:
http://www.snortsam.net
Description:
SnortSam is an intelligent agent that allows the popular open-source Intrusion Detection System called Snort to block intruding connections by reconfiguration of many firewalls and Cisco devices.
Homepage    cgit ¦ Codeberg ¦ GitHub ¦ GitLab ¦ SVNWeb - no subversion history for this port

Manual pages:
FreshPorts has no man page information for this port.
pkg-plist: as obtained via: make generate-plist
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  1. sbin/snortsam
  2. etc/snortsam/snortsam.conf.sample
  3. etc/snortsam/country-rootservers.conf.sample
  4. etc/snortsam/rootservers.cfg.sample
  5. sbin/samtool
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USE_RC_SUBR (Service Scripts)
  • snortsam
Dependency lines:
  • snortsam>0:security/snortsam
To install the port:
cd /usr/ports/security/snortsam/ && make install clean
To add the package, run one of these commands:
  • pkg install security/snortsam
  • pkg install snortsam
NOTE: If this package has multiple flavors (see below), then use one of them instead of the name specified above.
PKGNAME: snortsam
Flavors: there is no flavor information for this port.
distinfo:
SHA256 (snortsam-src-2.70.tar.gz) = 442040a7281a641008f6410b7f6528d709f17d5041fd3752011075f8a38d19bc SIZE (snortsam-src-2.70.tar.gz) = 1971624

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Configuration Options:
===> The following configuration options are available for snortsam-2.70_2: DEBUG=off: Build with debugging support DOCS=on: Build and/or install documentation IPFW=on: checks if configured tables are available SAMTOOL=on: install samtool ===> Use 'make config' to modify these settings
Options name:
security_snortsam
FreshPorts was unable to extract/find any pkg message
Master Sites:
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  1. http://www.snortsam.net/files/snortsam/
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Number of commits found: 1

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CommitCreditsLog message
2.70_2
21 Jan 2026 23:55:19
commit hash: 7c9b8959fb9d14239545d12c05d84d7097546a20commit hash: 7c9b8959fb9d14239545d12c05d84d7097546a20commit hash: 7c9b8959fb9d14239545d12c05d84d7097546a20commit hash: 7c9b8959fb9d14239545d12c05d84d7097546a20 files touched by this commit
Robert Clausecker (fuz) search for other commits by this committer
security/snortsam: broken on FreeBSD 15, deprecate

This port requires the obsolete ioctl(DIOCGETSTATUS), which is no
longer supported on FreeBSD 15.  Upstream is dead, so deprecate.
It also has some questionable warnings.

See also:	D41651
MFH:		2026Q1

(cherry picked from commit f41b42de2ab80efc26527aaf6aff7345d6583817)

Number of commits found: 1