Thank you for your help, but I have resolved the problem.  It was simply that 
I did not specify the "dbx" USE flag (for database extraction layer) when 
building prelude-manager.

When prelude-manager gets configured, it will check for libpreludedb.  If it 
is present, it will install support for it.  When I installed prelude-manager 
I had not yet installed libpreludedb, and I did not enable the USE flag 
requiring that libpreludedb be installed.  So, prelude-manager was actually 
built without support for libpreludedb resulting in the errors.

Thank you again,

Robert


On Friday 27 January 2006 02:19 am, Stéphane Joguet wrote:
> Did you try something like “prelude-manager –db –t mysql –h localhost –p
> 3306 –d prelude –u prelude –P xxxx” ?
>
>
>
>   _____
>
> De : Robert Larson [mailto:robert@...]
> Envoyé : jeudi 26 janvier 2006 19:33
> À : gentoo-security@g.o
> Objet : Re: [gentoo-security] invalid section : "db"
>
>
>
> Hello,
>
> Thank you for your response... I was simply typing "prelude-manager" on the
> command line. I had tried some variations, including -D, --config, and a
> few others without success.
>
> I was able to download and compile the prelude tools from prelude-ids.org
> to get going for now.
>
> I have submitted a bug about this here:
>
> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=120444
>
> Thank you. :)
>
> Robert
>
> On Thursday 26 January 2006 03:12 am, Stéphane Joguet wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> >
> >
> > Could you send us the command line you typed ?
> >
> >
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Message d'origine-----
> >
> > De : Robert Larson [mailto:robert@...]
> >
> > Envoyé : mercredi 25 janvier 2006 22:10
> >
> > À : gentoo-security@g.o
> >
> > Objet : [gentoo-security] invalid section : "db"
> >
> >
> >
> > I have the following versions installed:
> >
> >
> >
> > prelude-manager-0.9.1-r1
> >
> > libprelude-0.9.3
> >
> > libpreludedb-0.9.2
> >
> >
> >
> > Here are the errors I receive when running "prelude-manager" from the
> >
> > command
> >
> > line:
> >
> >
> >
> > /etc/prelude-manager/prelude-manager.conf:90: invalid section : "db".
> >
> > /etc/prelude-manager/prelude-manager.conf:93: invalid option "type" in
> >
> > "global" section at depth 0.
> >
> > /etc/prelude-manager/prelude-manager.conf:96: invalid option "host" in
> >
> > "global" section at depth 0.
> >
> > /etc/prelude-manager/prelude-manager.conf:99: invalid option "port" in
> >
> > "global" section at depth 0.
> >
> > /etc/prelude-manager/prelude-manager.conf:102: invalid option "name" in
> >
> > "global" section at depth 0.
> >
> > /etc/prelude-manager/prelude-manager.conf:108: invalid option "pass" in
> >
> > "global" section at depth 0.
> >
> > - server started (listening on 0.0.0.0 port 4690).
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Here is my configuration located in
> >
> > /etc/prelude-manager/prelude-manager.conf:
> >
> > include = /etc/prelude/default/global.conf
> >
> > listen = 0.0.0.0
> >
> > [db]
> >
> > type = mysql
> >
> > host = localhost
> >
> > port = 3306
> >
> > name = prelude
> >
> > user = prelude
> >
> > pass = *cough!* you wish *cough!*
> >
> >
> >
> > The contents of the included global.conf are:
> >
> > [prelude]
> >
> >
> >
> > gentoo-security@g.o mailing list

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