Re: Starting Snort at Boot Up

["Roman Danyliw" <roman () danyliw com>]

See Question #C-3 of the snort database plugin FAQ:

http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/~rdanyliw/snort/snortdb/snortdb_faq.html

Roman

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Nathanael Morrison" <nathanael_morrison () cogeco ca>
> To: <snort-users () lists sourceforge net>
> Sent: Monday, August 19, 2002 7:05 PM
> Subject: [Snort-users] Starting Snort at Boot Up
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I can't seem to get snort to start at boot up.
>
> I'm current using the following:
>
> Linux 2.4.18
> MySQL 3.23.39
> Snort 1.8.6
>
> I created two startup scripts,  /etc/rc.mysqld and /etc/rc.snortd.
> I then run /etc/rc.mysqld first and then /etc/rc.snortd by making a call
> from
> /etc/rc.local. MySQL starts up fine, but snort does not. When I looked at
> the
> system logs I found the following error:
>
> snort: FATAL ERROR: database: mysql_error: Can't connect to local MySQL
> server
> through socket '/var/run/mysql/mysql.sock' (2)
>
> Now this is the part I can't figure out. If I call /etc/rc.snortd after
> logging in, snort starts up fine. Everything runs great, snort is logging to
> MySQL, and I can analyse the packets with ACID. Maybe I'm missing
> something... any ideas?
>
> Nathanael
>
>
>
>
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