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Re: Error
From: Matt Kettler <mkettler () evi-inc com>
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 12:56:25 -0400
At 09:55 AM 4/13/2004, DESH SRIVASTAVA wrote:
While starting snort , I am getting following error " Error initializing network interface: " What may be the possible cause
Usually this means you tried to start snort as a non-root user. Since non-administrative users are prohibited from sniffing interfaces by the OS (and it would be a SEVERE security problem if they could) only root/admin users can launch snort.
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