Topic: Snort doesent't start

[Matthias J. Lang]

I installed snort on my sme 5.1.2. everytime i want snort getting started (on startup, too) it aborts starting with the messsge "./snortrc not found" (rules file). the rueles are located in /etc/snort and the path to the rules is correctly set in /etc/snort/snort.conf. When I copy a rules file to /root and rename it to snortrc, the rules are found, but snort doesent't start becauese it says, that no ip's for the rules are specified. can anyone help?

matthias

[Peter Schubert]

Do your use a dynamic IP ? (DSL or so ...).
I´ve installed snort on serveral 5.x servers without problems, but all with fixed IP´s.

[steve]

try starting snort using the full path to the binary
ie
/etc/snort/snort


hth

steve