Re: Problems starting snort, yet again.

["Brett G. Lemoine" <bl () incyte com>]

> On Tue, 17 Jul 2001, Bill Gercken wrote:
[...]
> On a more design-oriented front, shouldn't this have been
> logged _somewhere_, when using the '-D' switch?  I checked
> every log I could think of, and could not find any reference
> to the reason snort wouldn't start.  Even the -T switch didn't
> help.

Would it be possible for snort to do it's config parsing, log permission
checking, etc.. _before_ forking itself into daemon mode, and spewing
to STDERR in case of problems?

bl
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