ARGUS Startup Script

[Carter Bullard]

Gentle people,
The startup script must have the "-d" option set on the command line.

This option is a toggle, if you have ARGUS_DAEMON set in the conf
file, and you add the "-d" to the command line, we turn the daemon mode
off.  This is so you can change the behavior without having to change
the configuration file, say when you want to debug using gdb, or you
want to see the error messages printed to stdout.

Sorry for the inconvenience!!!!!

I'll have to update the documentation for this.

Carter

Carter Bullard
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On Apr 30, 2008, at 2:10 PM, Peter Van Epp wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 01:41:54PM -0400, Mark Bartlett wrote:
>> I tried commenting out the ARGUS_DAEMON=yes line and now it  
>> starts.. :^P
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 1:39 PM, Mark Bartlett <mabartle at gmail.com>  
>> wrote:
>>> Hey Peter,
>>>
>>> Got it set in the conf:
>>> ARGUS_DAEMON=yes
>>>
>>> mab
>>>
>
> 	Now that seems odd and counter intuitive! Unfortunatly I haven't yet
> finished reinstalling my Linux test boxes after a different test so  
> I don't
> currently have an argus3 linux system up to test with. I wonder if  
> because
> its starting from init we don't need the daemon mode. My 2.0.6  
> production
> machine is using -d in startup though and that should be the same in a
> config file as far as I know.
>
> /usr/local/bin/argus_bpf -dJR -P 560 -i em0 -i em1
>
> and I can try it on argus3 on my FreeBSD 7 test box and see what  
> that does.
>
> Peter Van Epp / Operations and Technical Support
> Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C. Canada
>