Re: Getting started

Russ via Snort-devel <[email protected]>
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Hey Skip, thanks for your interest.  The pid file is located in the log 
path which defaults to the working directory.  You can set that path 
with snort -l and enable the pid file with snort --create-pidfile.  See 
snort -? for these and other options.

Russ


On 6/22/17 9:13 PM, Skip Carter wrote:
> I am a long time snort user, and even wrote a book about it for the
> defunct Syngress publishing.  I have been using 3.0.0-a4-228 for about
> 3 weeks now but have still much to learn about it.  I am happy to work
> with alpha code and all that it means if my efforts help in small way
> to get to full release code.
>
> Let me start with an easy question: where is the pid file ?  I use this
> file for all sorts of auxillary purposes and I miss it.  Past
> experience with software tells me that a formerly valuable feature
> like this is gone because there is a better way to accomplish what it
> accomplish the task; but at this point I have no idea what it is.  So
> how do I get the external runtime status of the current instance.
>
> Skip
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