Re: Multiple Snort Instances With Identical Interfaces In Daemon

[waldo kitty <wkitty42 () windstream net>]

On 5/6/2011 16:59, Eoin Miller wrote:
> Looks like Snort needs to change the uid/gid ownership of the pid file
> right before it daemonizes like other processes. Otherwise peoples init
> scripts need to go around cleaning up after it and/or manage the
> permissions of the directory that the pid file goes into. This was
> discovered with 2.9.0.5.

we actually had a patch for something like this but i've been seeing the same 
problem for a long time... i get the same thing with the PID not being removed 
with our 2.8.6.* snorts and it has been being seen since several versions before 
that one, too...

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