ids-functions.pl: Add function to get the version of suricata

[ipfire-2.x.git] / config / cfgroot / ids-functions.pl

diff --git a/config/cfgroot/ids-functions.pl b/config/cfgroot/ids-functions.pl
index e4442729966ebe74713bcef606c17c8dbb62b101..7c6b884c51f38c68248528f181f34dac33907184 100644 (file)
--- a/config/cfgroot/ids-functions.pl
+++ b/config/cfgroot/ids-functions.pl
@@ -709,4 +709,41 @@ sub write_modify_sids_file($) {
        close(FILE);
 }
 
+#
+## Function to gather the version of suricata.
+#
+sub get_suricata_version($) {
+       my ($format) = @_;
+
+       # Execute piped suricata command and return the version information.
+       open(SURICATA, "suricata -V |") or die "Couldn't execute program: $!";
+
+       # Grab and store the output of the piped program.
+       my $version_string = <SURICATA>;
+
+       # Close pipe.
+        close(SURICATA);
+
+       # Remove newlines.
+        chomp($version_string);
+
+       # Grab the version from the version string. 
+       $version_string =~ /([0-9]+([.][0-9]+)+)/;
+
+       # Splitt the version into single chunks.
+       my ($major_ver, $minor_ver, $patchlevel) = split(/\./, $1);
+
+       # Check and return the requested version sheme.
+       if ($format eq "major") {
+               # Return the full version.
+               return "$major_ver";
+       } elsif ($format eq "minor") {
+               # Return the major and minor part.
+               return "$major_ver.$minor_ver";
+       } else {
+               # Return the full version string.
+               return "$major_ver.$minor_ver.$patchlevel";
+       } 
+}
+
 1;