RE: ERROR: Undefined variable name

["Harper, Patrick" <patrick.harper () phns com>]

does your password have characters like $%&#! in it?  I ran into this
earlier this week with someone.
 

Patrick S. Harper | CISSP RHCT MCSE
Information Security Engineer
patrick.harper () phns com



 

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From: dlimanov () sct com [mailto:dlimanov () sct com] 
Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2004 3:48 PM
To: snort-users () lists sourceforge net
Subject: [Snort-users] ERROR: Undefined variable name



Installed Snort on RedHat 9 along with Apache, SSL, PHP, MySQL and Acid
per Patrick Harper's instructions from www.InternetSecurityGuru.com. 
Everything went smooth but after I completed the whole process, Acid
would not display any alerts so I ran "snort -c /etc/snort/snort.conf"
to see what's causing the problem and the error that got displayed was: 
ERROR: Undefined variable name: (/etc/snort/snort.conf:458): 
Fatal Error, Quitting.. 

I went to snort.conf and on line 458 I have the following line that is
there to log to MySQL database (it's the only one that's uncommented): 
output database: log, mysql, user=snort password=mypassword dbname=snort
host=localhost 

Everything looks correct to me and for the life of me I can't figure out
why snort is choking on it. 
Any ideas? 
Thanks,

Dimitri




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