Re: Snort PID file

[Michael Anderson <mca () arlut utexas edu>]

I believe the pid file is only created / updated when snort is run in 
daemon mode (i.e snort -D).

Stef wrote:

> Started snort from the command line:
>
> # snort -c /etc/snort.conf
>
> # pidof snort
> 22735
>
> # find / -name snort\*.pid -print
> /var/run/snort/snort_eth0.pid
>
> # cat /var/run/snort/snort_eth0.pid
> 15430
>
> Could anybody explain to me the above (if it is not obvious yet - I am
> trying to figure out the path to the PID file for snort, for webmin
> module configuration)? Of course, because of the above difference, the
> snort webmin module reports snort as not running ... :(
>
> Thx,
> Stef
>
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