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Re: cannot start snort service


From: "Donnie Green Jr" <d_greenjr () hotmail com>
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 06:43:17 -0500

It works without the /24 from command line...the problem has something to do
with the startup config /etc/rc.d/init.d/snort.  I just can't figure out
what it is.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Potts, Ross A." <RPOTTS () NORTHROPGRUMMAN COM>
To: "'Donnie Green'" <d_greenjr () hotmail com>
Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2003 6:41 AM
Subject: RE: [Snort-users] cannot start snort service


Just for giggles try a /24 at the end of eth0

-----Original Message-----
From: Donnie Green [mailto:d_greenjr () hotmail com]
Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2003 6:22 AM
To: snort-users () lists sourceforge net
Subject: [Snort-users] cannot start snort service


Problem Description:
When I attempt to start the service using the command "service snort
start"
I get the following error:

Starting Intrusion Database System: SNORT
/etc/init.d/snort: pidof: command not found

1) I am running snort-1.9.1 on RH8.0
2) Default init is 5
3) /etc/init.d/snort linked to /etc/init.d/rc5.d/S11snort
4) snort exec: /usr/local/bin/snort
5) snort.conf: /usr/local/snort/etc/snort.conf

Additional Information:
I am successful in starting snort from the command line using
/usr/local/bin/snort -c /usr/local/snort/etc/snort.conf -i eth0

Configuration Files:

/etc/init.d/snort (which has a symbolic link to S11snort in rc5.d)
#!/bin/bash
# $Id: S99snort,v 1.1 2001/12/18 22:14:37 cazz Exp $
# /etc/init.d/snort : start or stop the SNORT Intrusion Database System
#
# Written by Lukasz Szmit <ptashek () scg gliwice pl>
#
# Configuration

# set config file & path to snort executable
SNORT_PATH=/usr/local/bin
CONFIG=/usr/local/snort/etc/snort.conf

# set interface
IFACE=eth0

# set GID/Group Name
SNORT_GID=nid

# other options
OPTIONS="-D"

# End of configuration


test -x $SNORT_PATH/snort || exit 0

case "$1" in
      start)
         echo "Starting Intrusion Database System: SNORT"
         $SNORT_PATH/snort -c $CONFIG -i $IFACE -g $SNORT_GID $OPTIONS
         if [ "`pidof $SNORT_PATH/snort`" ]; then
                 echo "SNORT is up and running!"
         else
                 exit 0
.......skipping.....






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