Re: Multiple Snort Instances With Identical Interfaces In Daemon

[Eoin Miller <eoin.miller () trojanedbinaries com>]

On 5/5/2011 10:06 PM, Joel Esler wrote:
> Okay, so a config pid-path: is the request I am hearing?
>
> Joel
config pid-path: would be nice, but also being able to specify the 
actual file name its self would be nice so we don't have to make 
multiple subdir's to track this stuff.

1. Snort should check for PID file collisions when daemonizing because 
if it occurs, the child process just disappears into the ether with no 
error/warning.
2. config pid-path: and config pid-file: would be great options to have 
within snort.conf


Something else I am noticing, if you use the --pid-path option at the 
command line and then you have snort exit gracefully, it just decides to 
leaves the .pid file behind without deleting it? This behavior does not 
occur unless you use --pid-path when you are daemonizing.

-- Eoin


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