RE: MYSQL 4.0 root login attempt

["David Naylor" <DNaylor () TEXASTRUSTCU ORG>]

It's running on Red Hat Linux (which I'm not real familiar with).  What is this HUPing stuff all about?

-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Schmehl [mailto:pauls () utdallas edu]
Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2005 1:14 PM
To: David Naylor; snort-users () lists sourceforge net
Subject: Re: [Snort-users] MYSQL 4.0 root login attempt


--On Tuesday, August 16, 2005 10:29:06 -0500 David Naylor 
<DNaylor () TEXASTRUSTCU ORG> wrote:

> I get this message every morning with source/destination of my Snort box
> and database server respectively.  Why is Snort trying to log back into
> the SQL server every morning?
Hard to say without knowing a little more - like what OS are you using.

If it's unix, it *could* be syslogd HUPing the process when the logfile is 
turned over.

Paul Schmehl (pauls () utdallas edu)
Adjunct Information Security Officer
University of Texas at Dallas
AVIEN Founding Member
http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/


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