Re: Snort Exits Mysteriously

["J. C. Woods" <drjung () sprynet com>]

Pontus Joakimsson wrote:
> Hi,
>
>   Had that problem too... with several beta versions including the latest I
>   compiled, 1.8.1-beta5 build 60. (I submitted this a couple of days ago
>   to this list, but it never arrived I think.)
>
>   It allways died around 10:00 CEST (european time), so I tried a new
>   approach... I runned snort with nobody/nogroup (ie. not root) and so
>   far it havent bailed.
>
>   Im running Suse 7.1 on a NEC Versa Lite FX.
>
> Best Regards,
>   Pontus Joakimsson

Snort seems to run best, and it is best for system security to NOT run
snort as root. I have always used snort owning its own daemon, and this
has served me well.

drjung

-- 
J. Craig Woods
UNIX SA

-Art is the illusion of spontaneity-

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