If libsafe is compiled on a system with libprelude installed, libsafe will additionally emit a stack overflow alert to the Prelude Manager. Using libprelude, libsafe becomes a Prelude sensor, and acquires the ability to issue alerts to the Prelude Manager. This allows you to centralize reports from distributed sensors in one place, and allows you to correlate events detected by different sensors (for more information about the Prelude Hybrid IDS, please see http://www.prelude-ids.org). In order for libsafe to be able to contact the Prelude Manager, you'll have a little configuration to do first: 1. Run the manager-adduser program on the Prelude Manager host. 2. Run the sensor-adduser program, on the sensor host with the following arguments : sensor-adduser --sensorname libsafe --uid <uid of the libsafe protected program> --manager-addr <address of the Prelude Manager> That's all you have to do to enable your libsafe-protected application to report to Prelude. The Libsafe/Prelude configuration is stored in the default sensor configuration file: /etc/prelude-sensors/sensors-default.conf. This configuration file should contain settings like the Prelude Manager address, so that a given sensor knows where an alert should be emitted.