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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