Re: error starting snort!!

[Erek Adams <erek () snort org>]

On Fri, 10 Oct 2003, yoki tyas wrote:

> when i try to activied snort Daemon (snortd)
> snort says "Starting snort: ERROR: User "snort"
> unknown
>            Fatal Error, Quitting...                   [FAILED]"

Ummm....  Read the error.  It's pretty clear what the problem is:  "User
'snort' unknown".  That simply means you're trying to run Snort as the
snort user and the snort user doesn't exist.  Create your user or change
it to run as root.

Cheers!

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Erek Adams

   "When things get weird, the weird turn pro."   H.S. Thompson


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