Re: [Snort-users] Snort -> Barnyard -> Remote MySQL DB (mysql.sock

Dan Brummer wrote:
> Hello,
> Sorry for posting this in the snort-users forum but I have been unable
> to find any help anywhere else. I recently configured Snort and
> Barnyard on a remote sensor. I would like to log the alerts to a
> central MySQL server. I have configured everything correctly but when I
> run Barnyard I get the following error:
>
> Failed to connect to database (null):XXXXXXXX@(null)/(null): Can't
> connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (2)
> Fatal Error, Quitting..
> Exiting
>
> Any ideas? MySQL server is not installed/running on this remote sensor
> and I would like it to not have MySQL server.
>
> Thank you guys for your help.
>
> -Dan

When you built barnyard did you do
../configure --enable-mysql ?

if no you need to do so & it will look for
/usr/include/mysql/mysql.h

which is part of the mysql-devel package

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