Re: Reload via Signal HUP does not work if you aren't root or are chroot

[Todd Wease <twease () sourcefire com>]

The reason this isn't allowed is because snort gets re-execed and will 
need to open pcap again which requires root privileges.  You can try 
compiling snort with --enable-reload, which will reload a new 
configuration without execing, so doesn't require root privileges.


On 01/25/2010 08:00 PM, Willst Mail wrote:
> We currently run snort on Red Hat Linux as a non-root user and not 
> in chroot.  When trying to kill -HUP the snort PID to reload 
> the configuration, I get the following:
>
> "Reload via Signal HUP does not work if you aren't root or are chroot"
>
> This seems to be by design for our setup.  Are there 
> recommendations for how to reload the config files when running as 
> non-root and not in a jail - or do people just reload the daemon?
>
>
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