Re: unknown output plugin 'database'

["Andrew R. Baker" <andrewb () snort org>]

Tobias Rice wrote:
> Any advice with this problem would be greatly appreciated! I've got the 
> 1.9.1 source. I did the following:
> ./configure --with-mysql --enable-flexresp (had to do this a few times 
> because I needed some dependencies which I installed)
> make
> make install.
> All of this went fine without any errors.
> I edited my snort.conf to output to mysql. But when I start snort 
> (./snort) it gets this error, WARNING: unknown output plugin: 'database', 
> then logs to /var/log/snort...
> It's like it wasn't compiled with mysql. To check all was happy, I ran 
> this:
> configure --with-mysql --enable-flexresp | grep mysql
> and it says mysql...yes.
> AARRRGGG!! Please help!
> Many thanks!

This is a known issue in 1.9.1.  It is fixed in CVS.  If you do not 
specify the config file on the command line, the output plugins will not 
be located.  The workaround is to specify the config file on the Snort 
command line with the "-c" argument.

-A



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