Re: error starting snort!!

[Matt Kettler <mkettler () evi-inc com>]

At 11:38 AM 10/10/2003, yoki tyas wrote:
> when i try to activied snort Daemon (snortd)
> snort says "Starting snort: ERROR: User "snort"
> unknown
>              Fatal Error, Quitting...                   [FAILED]"

You didn't really give any detail at all about your setup, but in general 
sounds like you're trying to setuid to a user "snort" but you didn't create 
a user for it.

Make sure that if you use the -u parameter, that you pass it the name of a 
user which really exists.




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