Re: Strange system() problem with snort

[Brian Smith <brians () monkeytek com>]

On Sun, Dec 30, 2001 at 10:59:52AM +0100, Mark Wormgoor wrote:
> I have a small problem with starting snort from another program.  I'm
> running snort 1.8.3 (from RPM) on a Redhat 7.2 based system.
> When I start snort from the command line, it will start just fine:
> /usr/sbin/snort -c /etc/snort/snort.conf -D -u snort -g snort -d -e -z

running snort non-root , while I nice idea, turns out to be a problem. I had this same problem with my Demarc/Snort 
installation. I can't remember the specific internal problems, but this stems from your other program not having access 
to the pcap device, something along those lines...

running snort as root, really doesn't hurt that much either ;)

hope that's a start,
brian

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