Re: Snort failed to stay up after upgrade to 2.9.6.0

[Michael Brown <mike.a.brown09 () gmail com>]

Just to add what Jeremy stated....

I would recommend running snort the way that he mentions every time.

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On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 1:01 PM, Jeremy Hoel <jthoel () gmail com> wrote:

> -T just tests the snort.conf.
>
> For the next test, don't run snort off of init (that's odd that it
> doesn't log anything to syslog) and run it in the foreground and see
> what's failing) but run it locally:
>
> snort -c /etc/snort/snort.conf -i eth_whatever
>
> See what it says, see if you get too
> "Commencing packet processing (pid=????)"
>
> Once you get there, let it run for a bit then cntrl-c to break it,
> look at the info presented.
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 10:53 AM, Feroz Basir <feroz.basir () gmail com>
> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > /var/log/messages file shown NIC enter promiscuous mode, then NIC exit
> promiscuous mode. Nothing in syslog log file.
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Feroz Basir
> >
> > > On 20 Feb 2014, at 01:22, Jeremy Hoel <jthoel () gmail com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Do you have any error messages from the syslog?
> > >
> > > > On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 10:17 AM, Feroz Basir <feroz.basir () gmail com>
> wrote:
> > > > Hi all,
> > > >
> > > > I'm running snort 2.9.4.6. I upgraded to version 2.9.6.0. Smooth
> upgrade process, but then when I restarted snortd service, snort process
> failed to stay up. Messages log file shown NIC enter promiscuous mode, then
> NIC exit promiscuous mode. I've run with -T and everything was OK.
> > > > Anybody could help me, please?
> > > >
> > > > Thank you.
> > > >
> > > > Regards,
> > > > Feroz Basir
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