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permissions denied error for alert log on new snort install
From: Jason Benway <benwaynet () gmail com>
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 11:19:26 -0400
I just installed the latest snort When I run snort -T everything is run but when I start snort either manually or from a dameon, it looks like it starts but if I check /var/logs/messages I see FATAL ERROR: OpenAlertFile() => fopen() alert file /var/log/snort/alert: Permission denied That file is drwxr-xr-x 2 snort snort 4096 Apr 27 09:38 . drwxr-xr-x 10 root root 4096 Apr 26 16:10 .. -rw------- 1 root root 0 Apr 27 09:38 alert which is the same as my local snort install wich is working. thanks,jb ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tell us your software development plans! Take this survey and enter to win a one-year sub to SourceForge.net Plus IDC's 2005 look-ahead and a copy of this survey Click here to start! http://www.idcswdc.com/cgi-bin/survey?id5hix _______________________________________________ Snort-users mailing list Snort-users () lists sourceforge net Go to this URL to change user options or unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/snort-users Snort-users list archive: http://www.geocrawler.com/redir-sf.php3?list=snort-users
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