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core dump


From: "Nathaniel Fisher" <plex () attbi com>
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 20:10:55 -0700

Well i have almost given up.  Im running openbsd 3.1 with the snort package avable from the openbsd ftp site.  Ok well 
when i try and run it in daemon mode it dies quietly, i think.  i run top and do not see it listed. so when i try and 
use snort to caputre trafic it fail outputing this message.

$ sudo snort -c /etc/snort/snort.conf -l /var/log/snort/ 
Log directory = /var/log/snort/

Initializing Network Interface tl0

        --== Initializing Snort ==--
Decoding Ethernet on interface tl0
Initializing Preprocessors!
Initializing Plug-ins!
Initializating Output Plugins!
Parsing Rules file /etc/snort/snort.conf

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Initializing rule chains...
Memory fault (core dumped) 

What the hell is going on.  Has nayone seen this before?

thanks
nate

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