Re: Snort switches to packet Dump Mode

[Mayur Patil <ram.nath241089 () gmail com>]

Thanks Waldo for this guidance.

Hope this will end my issue !!

Thanks again !!

-- 
*Cheers,
Mayur*.

On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 10:34 PM, waldo kitty <wkitty42 () windstream net>wrote:

> On 7/16/2013 07:05, Mayur Patil wrote:
> > In continuation with previous mail,
> >
> >     I recompiled Snort and Daq from source.
> >
> >     (This time I put script of snort from the snort website)
> >
> >     I got snort compilation successful and snort exit.
> >
> >     The output I am getting now are
> >
> >     [root@clc init.d]# ./snort status
> >     snort (pid  15718) is running...
> >
> >     [root@clc init.d]# snort status
> > *Running in packet dump mode*
>
> *./snort* and *snort* are NOT the same when you are in that directory! ;)
>
> now do yourself a huge favor and rename /etc/init.d/snort to something
> else so
> that you will no longer be confused if you are running snort directly or
> running
> the script to manage snort... if you are going to use the script, use the
> script
> all the time...
>
> perhaps something like
>    mv /etc/init.d/snort /etc/init.d/snortd
>
> then use /etc/init.d/snortd everywhere and stop using snort plain without
> the d...
>
> OR rename your snort binary and alter your /etc/init.d/snort script to use
> the
> binary's new name...
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