Date: Tue, 04 Jul 2006 12:18:21 -0500 From: Kevin Kinsey <kdk@daleco.biz> To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?C=E9sar_Amaya?= <csar@123.com.sv> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: snort and mysql connection at start troubles Message-ID: <44AAA2DD.20108@daleco.biz> In-Reply-To: <44AA9A86.5000602@123.com.sv> References: <44AA9A86.5000602@123.com.sv>
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César Amaya wrote: > Hi list > > I am installing SNORT 2.4.5 to log into a MySQL-5.1 database. snort logs > are being stored fine into the db, but whe the system start snort fails > because of this: snort[396]: FATAL ERROR: database: mysql_error: Can't > connect to local MySQL server through socket '/tmp/mysql.sock' (2) > > this is the configuration line in the snort.conf file > > output database: log, mysql, user=snortids password=PswIdS dbname=snort > host=localhost > > when I changed the 'localhost' name to 127.0.0.1 I got the following error > > snort[401]: FATAL ERROR: database: mysql_error: Can't connect to MySQL > server on '127.0.0.1' (61) > > All of this happens at start time. After system started I start snort > manually and connect to mysql just fine. > > It seems that snort start earlier than mysql. I want to start mysql > earlier than snort but I don´t know how. > > Can some body help me? > I think you should take a look at rcorder(8). Kevin Kinsey -- Think honk if you're a telepath.
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