Snort priv. drop and chroot before/after changing uid/gid

[Bill Parker <wp02855 () gmail com>]

Hi All,

    I ran into an instance where having snort set it's UID/GID before
dropping priv/chroot can lead to a problem creating a .PID in /var/run, due
to user permissions.  I know this behavior was changed in reading the Snort
Changelog, but perhaps a CLI switch could be added to write PID before
changing to user/group, rather than afterwards?

Bill

p.s. - when this happens, the snort script daemon can't find the correct
PID to kill is why I'm mentioning it :)

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