Re: Strange Problem Restarting Snort

[Joel Esler <joel.esler () sourcefire com>]

At first glance I would guess that you have two snort.conf files..

What does your Snort command line look like?

Joel


On Fri, Oct 27, 2006 at 10:16:58AM +0200, it looks like Beyerle, Christian sent me:
>    Hello Everyone,
>
>    I defined my Home_Net like this:
>
>    var HOME_NET
>    [192.168.1.0/24,192.168.2.0/24,192.168.3.0/24,192.168.4.0/24]
>
>    If i restart snort, i sometimes (not always) get the following error:
>
>    ERROR: Undefined variable name: (/etc/snort/snort.conf:44):
>    eth0_ADDRESS
>    Fatal Error, Quitting..
>
>    If i edit snort.conf i find the following statement, and my old entry
>    of home_net like above is missing.
>
>    var HOME_NET $eth0_ADDRESS
>
>    I never do any changes in the snort.conf, but the home_net changes.
>
>    I think it's a little bit strange, can you help me?
>
>    Greetings Chris

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