How To Install sec on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install sec
on CentOS 8.
What is sec
SEC is a simple event correlation tool that reads lines from files, named pipes, or standard input, and matches the lines with regular expressions, Perl subroutines, and other patterns for recognizing input events. Events are then correlated according to the rules in configuration files, producing output events by executing user-specified shell commands, by writing messages to pipes or files, etc.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install sec
on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install sec.
Install sec on CentOS 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf
using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install sec
using dnf
by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install sec
Install sec on CentOS 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install sec
using yum
by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install sec
How To Uninstall sec on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the sec
package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove sec
sec Package Contents on CentOS 8
/etc/logrotate.d/sec
/etc/sec
/etc/sec/README
/etc/sysconfig/sec
/usr/bin/sec
/usr/lib/systemd/system/sec.service
/usr/lib/systemd/system/[email protected]
/usr/share/doc/sec
/usr/share/doc/sec/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/sec/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/sec/README
/usr/share/doc/sec/convert.pl
/usr/share/doc/sec/itostream.c
/usr/share/doc/sec/swatch2sec.pl
/usr/share/man/man1/sec.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install sec
on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.