RE: SIGHUP vs comand line restart

[Steve Halligan <agent33 () geeksquad com>]

> Hello,
>
> What is it more efficient, restart Snort with SIGHUP or
> killing+restarting from comand line?
>
> Therefore, is it posible (with a signal, maybe) to 
> restart Snort without have to rebuild the chains (the
> two dimensional linked list used by the Detection 
> Engine) from the rules files? I think that it would 
> be more efficient.
>
> Thanks in advance.

If you don't rebuild the rule-chains, then the point of restarting snort in
most cases, which would be to integrate rule file changes, is lost.

-Steve 

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