Re: Solution for snort user on openSUSE 11.0 snortd init script problmes running snort ad daemon using rcsnortd commands

[Joel Esler <eslerj () gmail com>]

On Dec 18, 2008, at 11:02 AM, Tedi Heriyanto allegedly wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 10:57 PM, Joel Esler <eslerj () gmail com> wrote:
> > > After testing your script in my test machine, I still got the
> > > following warning message :
> > >
> > > Dec 18 22:01:04 myhost snort[13488]: Could not remove pid file
> > > /var/run//snort_eth0.pid: Permission denied
> >
> > Looks like your permissions to access the file are not correct.   
> > Are you
> > sure you are running Snort as root?
> I am calling snort from /etc/init.d/snort script.
>
> I got the warning message although the files have been deleted. So I
> guess it's OK to ignore them.

Yeah, I don't know how your specific script starts, or how you are  
running it.  But, if you can't access a .pid file, that usually means  
you don't have the correct permissions.


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Joel Esler
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