Re: restart code error RH 7.1

["Madhav Diwan" <mdiwan () wagweb com>]

Yes you are correct no symlinks exist for anything snort related on my
machine.

thanks Chris.

Madhav





Chris Green wrote:
> "Madhav Diwan" <mdiwan () wagweb com> writes:
>
> > but then again :  so does this :
> >
> >
> > /usr/sbin/snort-plain -A fast -b -l /var/log/snort -d -i eth0 -c
> > /etc/snort/snort.conf -D
> >
> >  note i have two binaries snort-plain and snort-mysql in /usr/sbin
> >
> >
> > Here is the problem !!!
>
> So the symlink was missing and/or broken.. hrm.
> > WARNING : if you installed snort 1.8.1-current via tarball it places
> the
> > snort binary in /usr/bin/ and the SNORTD file calls only "snort" ..
> not
> > "snort-plain" or "snort-WHATEVER" .
> >
> >  you must manually edit the snortd file to call the particular binary
> > instlled by the rpm you want to use... Note edit  both the start and
> > stop cases
>
> Well, the rpm is supposed to fix the symlinks correctly but in the new
> soon to be released packages, I do believe I made a symlink fix that
> should always be executed.
>
> There should be a symlink from /usr/sbin/snort -> /usr/sbin/snort-mysql
> --
> Chris Green <cmg () uab edu>
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