Re: Snort, Barnyard, MySQL problem

[Paul Schmehl <pschmehl_lists () tx rr com>]

--On Thursday, November 06, 2008 14:26:42 -0600 "Jefferson, Shawn" 
<Shawn.Jefferson () bcferries com> wrote:

> I have two Snort machines, #1 is running MySQL and BASE.  I have a script to
> startup snort and barnyard on #2 with priority 95, but on startup, barnyard
> gives me the following error message:
>
>
> Failed to connect to database snort:XXXXXX@172.17.129.150/snort: Can’t
> connect to MySQL server on 172.17.129.150 (101)
>
> Fatal Error, Quitting… Exiting.
>
> If I SSH into #2 and then run the startup script, barnyard connects properly.
>
> Any ideas on how to get this to work?

Sounds like you have a timing issue.  Mysql has to be completely up and running 
and waiting for connections before barnyard can login to it.  Make sure that 
the mysql script has a low enough priority that by the time barnyard starts 
mysql is ready.

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Paul Schmehl, Senior Infosec Analyst
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