How To Install sec on Fedora 34

sec is Simple Event Correlator script to filter log file entries

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install sec on Fedora 34.

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 Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install sec.

Install sec on Fedora 34 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 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 Fedora 34 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 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 Fedora 34

To uninstall only the sec package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove sec

sec Package Contents on Fedora 34

/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 Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.