Re: Starting Snort at Boot Up

[Erek Adams <erek () theadamsfamily net>]

On Mon, 26 Aug 2002, Hal Wigoda wrote:

> You have to create the following links to /etc/rc.d/snort
>
> /etc/rc.d/rc0.d/K20snortd
> /etc/rc.d/rc1.d/K20snortd
> /etc/rc.d/rc2.d/K20snortd
> /etc/rc.d/rc3.d/K20snortd
> /etc/rc.d/rc4.d/K20snortd
> /etc/rc.d/rc5.d/K20snortd

Hal,

        Err...  Not quite.  Those files only stop snort when the machine
changes run levels.  That has nothing to do with the error below:

> > snort: FATAL ERROR: database: mysql_error: Can't connect to local MySQL
> > server through socket '/var/run/mysql/mysql.sock' (2)

        Since it starts from a script that you can run by hand, but not on
bootup, it's either permissions, wrong user, a path problem, or a problem of
what shell you are running.  It's kinda the same type of error when a cronjob
won't cron, but will run just fine from the commandline.

        Cheers!

-----
Erek Adams
Nifty-Type-Guy
TheAdamsFamily.Net



-------------------------------------------------------
This sf.net email is sponsored by: Jabber - The world's fastest growing 
real-time communications platform! Don't just IM. Build it in! 
http://www.jabber.com/osdn/xim
_______________________________________________
Snort-users mailing list
Snort-users () lists sourceforge net
Go to this URL to change user options or unsubscribe:
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/snort-users
Snort-users list archive:
http://www.geocrawler.com/redir-sf.php3?list=snort-users