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Re: boot problem : snort starts too soon



On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 12:40:48PM -0500, Gunnar Wolf wrote:
> Timothy Demulder dijo [Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 05:52:59PM +0200]:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Could it be possible to start snort at a later time in the bootprocess?
> > I'm asking this because ppp starts S14 and snort starts S20.
> > Point is, pppd call <provider> takes a couple of seconds to negotiate an
> > ip with the ISP so snort doesn't have an ip on ppp0 when it gets called
> > and fails to start every single time.
> > 
> > I guess I'm not the only one experiencing this ;)
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I think something like this in the init script would suffice:

No, the most elegent solution is to disable the init script and start
snort somewhere in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/.

Greetings,
Oliver

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