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Re: [Snort-users] Why does Snort restart?

Subject: Re: [Snort-users] Why does Snort restart?
Date: Sat, 21 May 2005 23:53:39 -0500
--On Saturday, May 21, 2005 9:08 PM -0700 mahboobeh soleimani <mah_soleimani@yahoo.com> wrote:

I installed Snort on my system and started it with this command : "snort -i eth1" and the traffic which it processes was about 4 Mbit/sec but during the night ,when traffic is not very much ,it gets restarted and will start with this command: "/usr/sbin/snort -A fast -b -d -D -i eth1 -u snort -g snort -c /etc/snort/snort.conf -l /var/log/snort" as you can see it restarts with some predefined switches and will capture packets (instead of eth1) on eth0 by default. Would you please guide me what is the reason of getting restarted of Snort and on the other hand where the restart command is tuned in Snort's config files? Best Regards.

You're using some version of Unix (probably Linux?), and the snort log files are being turned over every night. In a "standard" Unix setup, when the log files are turned over, the system HUP's the server.

You don't say what OS you're using, so it's really difficult to say where, but you probably have a startup script somewhere that syslog is using to restart the server. The startup script would have the switches that you're seeing in it.

Paul Schmehl (pauls@utdallas.edu)
Adjunct Information Security Officer
University of Texas at Dallas
AVIEN Founding Member
http://www.utdallas.edu/


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