Re: Problems daemonizing snort when using BPF filters

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

Can you put the bpf's in a file and call the file with the "-F" command line tag?

Joel


On Mon, Aug 20, 2007 at 12:37:11PM +0200, it looks like Patrik Nordl?n sent me:
> Hi,
>
> wondering if anyone else has experienced this...
>
> I'm running snort on a bunch of FreeBSD 6 machines. Due to some system 
> constraints, I've had to compile a statically linked binary for use on the 
> sensors (the dynamic libs distributed along with it), however this hasn't 
> been a problem...however, when trying to run snort v2.7.x on these sensors I 
> have a problem with getting snort to run in the background.
>
> Whether using -D on the command line or "config daemon" in the config file (I 
> suppose it's the same thing in the end anyway), snort doesn't go into the 
> background as it's supposed to if I add BPF filters as command line 
> arguments. It still works perfectly though, just that it doesn't go into the 
> background. If I just strip off the BPF filters from the command line 
> arguments, snort goes into the background as it's supposed to. I'm not 
> experiencing this problem when running snort v2.6.1.3 or earlier versions.
>
> I know I'm running a very non-standard setup here since I'm using statically 
> linked binaries, but still, has anyone seen this problem and/or has a 
> suggestion on how to solve it?
>
> Thanks,
> Patrik
>
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