Re: Multiple Snort Instances With Identical Interfaces In Daemon

[Martin Holste <mcholste () gmail com>]

Awesome, thanks!

On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 5:24 PM, Joel Esler <jesler () sourcefire com> wrote:
> Okay, I'll enter a bug for these.  Thanks.
> Joel
>
> On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 6:17 PM, Eoin Miller
> <eoin.miller () trojanedbinaries com> wrote:
> > On 5/5/2011 10:06 PM, Joel Esler wrote:
> > > Okay, so a config pid-path: is the request I am hearing?
> > >
> > > Joel
> > config pid-path: would be nice, but also being able to specify the actual
> > file name its self would be nice so we don't have to make multiple subdir's
> > to track this stuff.
> >
> > 1. Snort should check for PID file collisions when daemonizing because if
> > it occurs, the child process just disappears into the ether with no
> > error/warning.
> > 2. config pid-path: and config pid-file: would be great options to have
> > within snort.conf
> >
> >
> > Something else I am noticing, if you use the --pid-path option at the
> > command line and then you have snort exit gracefully, it just decides to
> > leaves the .pid file behind without deleting it? This behavior does not
> > occur unless you use --pid-path when you are daemonizing.
> >
> > -- Eoin

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