snort and mysql connection at start troubles

[César Amaya]

Kevin Kinsey wrote:
> 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
>
I got mysql-server to start before snort

proxy# rcorder /etc/rc.d/* /usr/local/etc/rc.d/*
/usr/local/etc/rc.d/apache22.sh
/etc/rc.d/DAEMON
/etc/rc.d/LOGIN
/usr/local/etc/rc.d/mysql-server
/usr/local/etc/rc.d/snort
/etc/rc.d/ypxfrd

even though, I still have the same problem
snort[471]: FATAL ERROR: database: mysql_error: Can't connect to local 
MySQL server through socket '/tmp/mysql.sock' (2)

Any thought?