Bastille on Mac OS X

Bastille support for OS X is in CVS now.

Bastille's X interface is supported, though this requires that you use an X implementation, either the one that comes with the OroborOSX window manager or the one available from Apple.

It also requires perl-Tk, which is only available via source on OS X. You can follow these instructions to get perl-Tk working on your Mac. We'll also try to build a fink package for perl-Tk, to allow easy download.

Bastille for OS X is working, in tarball format.We're looking for a volunteer to help us package it in both Fink and DiskImage packages. E-mail jay AT bastille-linux DOT org to volunteer!

Instructions 1. Download the tarball: Bastille-OSX.tbz2.
2. Uncompress the file, like so: tar -xjvf Bastille-OSX.tbz2
3. Run the install script, like so: cd Bastille && sh ./Install-OSX.sh
4. Confirm that you have perl-Tk installed.
5. Start up an X Server.
6. Run InteractiveBastille -x.

Resources

The following resources were useful in extending Bastille to OS X:

Mac OS X for UNIX Geeks from O'Reilly, by Brian Jepson and Ernest Rothman
Mac OS X in a Nutshell from O'Reilly, by Jason McIntosh, Chuck Toporek, and Chris Stone
List of normal background processes on OSX
Adrian Mayo's Advanced Mac OS X UNIX
Apple Developer Documentation

Acknowledgement

Bastille wishes to thank Stephen Northcutt, of The SANS Institute for his support in porting Bastille to OS X.