Re: snort wont start, it gives errors for mysql/libmysqlclient.so.10.0

[Neal Hamilton <nealhamiltonjr () yahoo com>]

Thanks, i figured it out at like 3am. :) i just copied the lib to /usr/lib 
and ran the ldconfig....everything works fine now.
thanks to everybody.
At 09:38 AM 7/31/2002 -0400, Ian Macdonald wrote:
> Snort can't find the mysql client library that is used to connect to the
> mysql database. I take it you installed mysql using the demarc install? It
> might be that you need to run ldconfig or move the libmysqlclient.so to
> another location where your operating system will be able to find it.
>
> Psd kicks off snort, it does not know when snort dies so that would explain
> why psd says everything is running . I would test using a command like
>
> snort -dev until you can get your snort/mysql issues resolved.
>
> Ian
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Neal Hamilton" <nealhamiltonjr () yahoo com>
> To: <snort-users () lists sourceforge net>
> Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2002 8:40 PM
> Subject: [Snort-users] snort wont start, it gives errors for
> mysql/libmysqlclient.so.10.0
>
>
> > i installed puresecure on openbsd. i have to start everything manually for
> > now until they get some new startup scripts compatible with openbsd's
> > default shell pdksh.
> > anyways.... i am able to get the mysql and apache server running but when
> i
> > try to start the psd daemon via:
> > /usr/local/puresecure/sensor/bin/psd
> > it does not start snort. it says it started successfully but when i do a
> ps
> > -aux i am not seeing the psd entry. if i try to retype the startup string
> > again it says that it is already running ,but the pid it says it is
> running
> > from is pid for perl.
> > on the console i am getting these errors: Snort error: Error while trying
> > to start Snort
> > so..... i tried to start snort myself from the console logged in as root
> > and snort is giving me these errors.
> > # snort
> > /usr/libexec/ld.so: snort: libmysqlclient.so.10.0: No such file or
> directory
> > i searched for the libmysqlclient.so.10.0 file because i thought
> > puresecures ./configure script installed everything i would need....and it
> > is on my system.
> > #find / -name libmysqlclient.so.10.0
> > /usr/local/mysql/lib/mysql/libmysqlclient.so.10.0
> >
> /usr/local/puresecure/install/mysql-3.23.49/libmysql/.libs/libmysqlclient.so
> .10.0
> > as you can see its on my system, so what do i need to do to get this
> sensor
> > to start.
> > thanks in advance.
> >
> >
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