Bug 184084 - /etc/init.d/snortd starts snortd with wrong path to snort.conf
Summary: /etc/init.d/snortd starts snortd with wrong path to snort.conf
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Status: CLOSED NEXTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: snort
Version: 4
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Dennis Gilmore
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2006-03-06 03:52 UTC by Chong Kai Xiong
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:11 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2006-03-30 04:53:16 UTC
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Patch to change config file path (358 bytes, patch)
2006-03-06 03:52 UTC, Chong Kai Xiong 		no flags Details | Diff
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Description Chong Kai Xiong 2006-03-06 03:52:34 UTC 
Description of problem:
/etc/init.d/snortd starts snort with -c /etc/snort/snort.conf but snort.conf is
located in /etc/. 'service snortd start' fails to start snort as a result even
though [OK] is printed.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
snort-2.4.3-1.fc4

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. service snortd start
2. pgrep snort
  
Actual results:
snort is terminated with a fatal error logged in /var/log/messages. Step (2)
prints nothing.

Expected results:
snort running and step (2) would reveal its PID

Additional info:
None
Comment 1 Chong Kai Xiong 2006-03-06 03:52:34 UTC 
Created attachment 125692 [details]
Patch to change config file path
Comment 2 Chong Kai Xiong 2006-03-06 04:08:17 UTC 
I just noticed 2 more disturbing problems.

a. snort.conf includes several rules files that do not exist and are not
distributed with the RPM.

b. snort.conf refers to unicode.map under the configuration of http_inspect.
That file does not exist and is not installed either.
Comment 3 Dennis Gilmore 2006-03-06 04:48:14 UTC 
I need to add a README file you have to download the rules from snort.org they 
do not license them under GPL  and we can not redistribute them. 
 
 
thnaks  for the patch
Comment 4 Chong Kai Xiong 2006-03-07 10:28:31 UTC 
Ah interesting, I didn't notice they were licensed separately.
Comment 5 Dennis Gilmore 2006-03-30 04:53:16 UTC 
fixed package  to put files in /etc/snort/
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