snort and mysql connection at start troubles

[Kevin Kinsey]

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

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