Re: Assistance with archivePlus script to archive snort DB.

[Paul Schmehl <pauls () utdallas edu>]

--On Monday, January 24, 2005 09:15:42 AM -0500 DTC <chubeshoi () chubes com> 
wrote:

> Hi all.
>
> After trying to run the archivePlus script to archive old stuff from my
> snort database, I've gotten stuck on the following error:
> ' (1). Pausing before retrying.: Unknown MySQL Server Host 'localhost
>
> Can anyone point me in the right direction as to why this doesn't work?
> I can't understand this, I've set all the correct permissions in mysql
> and have actually used acid to initialize and create the tables in my new
> database called 'archive'.  The acid_conf.php configuration file uses
> 'localhost' as the server host and works fine.
1) Are you running the script on the same host that the db is on?  (If not, 
do.  It's very dangerous to run the script remotely.

2) Have you tried 127.0.0.1 instead of localhost?

3) Have you tried using the hostname of the db server instead of localhost?

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


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