Re: symbol error with 2.9.1

[Russ Combs <rcombs () sourcefire com>]

On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 1:36 PM, Jason Haar <Jason.Haar () trimble co nz>wrote:

> On 11/25/2010 04:07 AM, Russ Combs wrote:
> > rand_open() is in dnet, which you can get from here:
> >
> > http://code.google.com/p/libdnet/
> >
> > What does ldd snort show for libdnet?
>
> Brilliant - thanks for that. Now I see what happened. On the primary
> box, 2.9.0.1 works fine, but a couple of days later some Dell management
> tools were updated - which injected a new library dir into the standard
> search path - and it includes it's own (older) libdnet. As snort was
> running, it didn't care. Then I installed it onto the new box (with all
> the same apps) and snort used that dnet instead of the system one.
>
> We barely use any of the Dell tools, so I've commented out that path and
> now snort is happy again :-)
>
> > BTW, this is true for 2.9.0.1; 2.9.1 is under development.  ;)
>
> In my defense, this probably would have happened to me with 2.9.1 too ;-)

LOL - glad it is working.  Lib path ordering can lead to some confusing
situations.

> Thanks!
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