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Re: boot problem : snort starts too soon



On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 05:52:59PM +0200, Timothy Demulder wrote:
> 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 ;)

Last time I looked, Snort could be configured to operate in dialup mode, 
and as such wouldn't start on bootup and would be started by 
/etc/ppp/ip-up.d

This would seem to be the most elegant way to approach the problem.

Andrew

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