scanlogd command not found

Introduction

When you run more command in linux terminal / console, you get the following error message

scanlogd: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: scanlogd: command not found

Solutions to scanlogd: command not found

How To Fix scanlogd: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu scanlogd is provided by scanlogd package.

scanlogd is:

Scanlogd is a TCP port scan detection tool, originally designed to illustrate various attacks an IDS developer has to deal with, for a Phrack Magazine article. Thus, unlike some of the other port scan detection tools out there, scanlogd is designed to be totally safe to use.

This release of scanlogd can be built with support for one of several packet capture interfaces. In addition to the raw socket interface on Linux (which does not require any libraries), scanlogd is now aware of libnids and libpcap.

Debian’s version of scanlogd has been configured to use the raw socket interface on Linux.

To fix this problem, we can install more using the command below.

sudo apt-get -y install scanlogd

This command might take some time to finish depending on your machine internet connection.

You can also use apt command to install scanlogd.

sudo apt -y install scanlogd

Or if you have aptitude installed you can use the following command.

sudo aptitude install scanlogd

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix scanlogd command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.