RE: Not loggin to MySQL Database

["Vernon Webb" <vernon () comp-wiz com>]

Sorry I forgot to mention that I had installed this on a Fedora box and used rpms to install. I Installed a different 
version and it is now working.

Thanks for the info.

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From: "Harper, Patrick" <patrick.harper () phns com> 
To: "Vernon Webb" <vernon () comp-wiz com>, <snort-users () lists sourceforge net> 
Sent: Tue, 1 Jun 2004 08:48:47 -0500 
Subject: RE: [Snort-users] Not loggin to MySQL Database 

> What are you running snort on?   
>
> What permissions did you give to the user you listed in the snort.conf 
> file to log to the database?  Is snort even started (on *nix ps -ef|grep 
> snort)?  Is mysql running? 
>
> Type snort -c /etc/snort/snort.conf (or what ever the path to your 
> snort.conf is)  this will give you a little more to go on. 
>
> Since it has stopped logging to /var/log/snort dir I am betting you have 
> something wrong with the output line.  Check it out with the command 
> above (snort -c /etc/snort/snort.conf) and see if it tells you that. 
>
> -----Original Message----- 
> From: Vernon Webb [mailto:vernon () comp-wiz com] 
> Sent: Friday, May 28, 2004 5:37 PM 
> To: snort-users () lists sourceforge net 
> Subject: [Snort-users] Not loggin to MySQL Database 
>
> I hate doing this as I know how much everyone hates newbie question, but 
> I am new to SNORT and cannot get SNORT to log to the MySQL database on 
> my box. 
> As far as I can tell all I need do is add the correct user name and 
> password to the database line in the SNORT.conf file. However when I add 
> this line it doesn't log to the database and it stops loggin the log 
> files it logged to prior. Is there something else I am missing here? Any 
> ideas on debugging this? 
>
> Thanks. 
>
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