Re: snort / init.d

[Wes Young <wcyoung () buffalo edu>]

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Snort should create it's own pid in /var/run/snort.pid, i've not really
found a way to make it create the pid elsewhere at runtime... (only if
you specify the 'var/run' dir differently at compile time, I think.

l.heppler () synergetic ag wrote:
| hi,
|
|
|>Is there any type of log message to indicate a problem?  When
|>I have seen this type of behaviour, it was because the
|>permissions on the directory that you were trying to write
|>the pid file were wrong.
|
|
| if checked that, the permission are right it won't even create the
| pidfile in /tmp.
| under debian the start-stop-daemon should take care of this, and it does
| for other processes, but not for snort. :(
| and daemon.log also tells nothing.
| could it be an compilation problem ? cause i made debian packages, based
| on 2.2.0-9 from debian unstable.
| I really ran out of options.
|
| does snort create a pidfile on its own if started from commandline with
| -D option ?
|
| please help.
| regards
| Lars
|
|
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