Yes I did verify if the process was running through ps and top.and I also tried commenting the echo altogether and had no luck. <br><br>This time i edited the config file to enable logging to the file and removed the sleep and commented the echo statement again. And extra logging in the suricata.log file indicated that the path to my threshold.config file was incorrect. So I updated that part and now it seems to start the process correctly.<br>
<br>My avg CPU (16 processors, E5520 @ 2.27GHz and 48G RAM) has jumped from 12% to 50%. I have around 8k emerging threat rules enabled and monitoring a 2Gbps feed. I have it setup with PF_RING 5.3 <br><br>pfring:<br> - interface: eth2,eth3<br>
threads: 1<br> interface: eth2,eth3<br> cluster-id: 99 <br> cluster-type: cluster_round_robin<br><br><br>top - 19:23:58 up 1 day, 2:05, 1 user, load average: 2.85, 3.46, 2.96<br>Tasks: 330 total, 21 running, 309 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie<br>
Cpu0 : 53.0%us, 19.5%sy, 1.3%ni, 24.5%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 1.7%si, 0.0%st<br>Cpu1 : 41.6%us, 24.0%sy, 2.2%ni, 30.6%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 1.6%si, 0.0%st<br>Cpu2 : 44.1%us, 18.0%sy, 1.3%ni, 34.3%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 2.3%si, 0.0%st<br>
Cpu3 : 36.5%us, 22.8%sy, 1.6%ni, 36.2%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 2.9%si, 0.0%st<br>Cpu4 : 54.3%us, 11.8%sy, 2.8%ni, 29.1%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 2.1%si, 0.0%st<br>Cpu5 : 48.2%us, 11.7%sy, 0.7%ni, 37.1%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 2.3%si, 0.0%st<br>
Cpu6 : 51.5%us, 15.6%sy, 1.4%ni, 30.2%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 1.4%si, 0.0%st<br>Cpu7 : 57.5%us, 11.0%sy, 1.0%ni, 27.6%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 2.9%si, 0.0%st<br>Cpu8 : 45.8%us, 32.3%sy, 0.3%ni, 15.3%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 6.2%si, 0.0%st<br>
Cpu9 : 42.0%us, 22.5%sy, 1.7%ni, 31.7%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 2.0%si, 0.0%st<br>Cpu10 : 42.7%us, 22.2%sy, 2.6%ni, 30.1%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 2.3%si, 0.0%st<br>Cpu11 : 35.0%us, 22.0%sy, 2.5%ni, 36.2%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 4.3%si, 0.0%st<br>
Cpu12 : 48.7%us, 12.6%sy, 1.3%ni, 32.5%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 5.0%si, 0.0%st<br>Cpu13 : 50.6%us, 9.0%sy, 1.0%ni, 34.8%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 4.5%si, 0.0%st<br>Cpu14 : 48.2%us, 15.4%sy, 1.0%ni, 30.9%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 4.5%si, 0.0%st<br>
Cpu15 : 42.3%us, 16.7%sy, 2.5%ni, 34.4%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 4.1%si, 0.0%st<br><br><br><br>Thank you very much for helping me with this! Atleast I have it started now, need to work on tuning it.<br><br>-Benson<br><br><br>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 2:22 AM, Duarte Silva <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:duarte.silva@serializing.me" target="_blank">duarte.silva@serializing.me</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<p dir="ltr">Hi,</p>
<p dir="ltr">did you try to check if Suricata is running using ps? It might be that you are echoing a empty PID to the file after the sleep. I would remove lines all together as Suricata creates the file anyway. </p>
<p dir="ltr">Another thing is, since you are running using daemon mode you sould enable the suricata.log. In the configuration file, search for console, you will see some logging options, enable the one for file logging.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Cheers, <br>
Duarte Silva</p><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">
<div class="gmail_quote">On 26 Feb 2013 22:44, "Benson Mathews" <<a href="mailto:benson.mathews@gmail.com" target="_blank">benson.mathews@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
just tried running the suricata bin file directly with the same options.... same result.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 5:36 PM, Benson Mathews <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:benson.mathews@gmail.com" target="_blank">benson.mathews@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Thank you for the quick response Duarte!<br><br>I tried comment the line that wrote the PID to the PIDFILE in my init.d script (also tried using a sleep 2 without commenting). This is time there is no error on the start.log but when i check the service status it says PID file /var/run/suricata.pid exists, but process not running!<br>
<br>init.d script:<br>NAME=suricata<br>DAEMON=/usr/local/suricata/current/bin/$NAME<br>SURCONF=/etc/suricata/suricata.yaml<br>PIDFILE=/var/run/suricata.pid<br>IDMODE=pfring <br><br>...<br>...<br><br>SURICATA_OPTIONS=" -c $SURCONF --pidfile $PIDFILE --pfring -D"<br>
<br>case "$1" in<br> start)<br> if [ -f $PIDFILE ]; then<br> PID1=`cat $PIDFILE`<br> if kill -0 "$PID1" 2>/dev/null; then<br> echo "$NAME is already running with PID $PID1"<br>
exit 0<br> fi<br> fi<br> echo -n "Starting suricata in $IDMODE mode..."<br> $DAEMON $SURICATA_OPTIONS > /var/log/suricata/suricata-start.log 2>&1 &<br> PID1=$!<br>
<br> sleep 2 ### JUST ADDED<br> echo "$PID1" > $PIDFILE<br> echo " done."<br> ;;<br>-------<br><br><br>cat /var/log/suricata/suricata-start.log<br>26/2/2013 -- 17:28:22 - <Info> - This is Suricata version 1.4 RELEASE<br>
26/2/2013 -- 17:28:22 - <Info> - CPUs/cores online: 16<br>26/2/2013 -- 17:28:22 - <Info> - Failure when trying to get MTU via ioctl: 19<br>26/2/2013 -- 17:28:22 - <Error> - [ERRCODE: SC_ERR_MISSING_CONFIG_PARAM(118)] - NO logging compatible with daemon mode selected, suricata won't be able to log. Please update 'logging.outputs' in the YAML.<br>
26/2/2013 -- 17:28:22 - <Info> - allocated 3670016 bytes of memory for the defrag hash... 65536 buckets of size 56<br>26/2/2013 -- 17:28:22 - <Info> - preallocated 65535 defrag trackers of size 144<br>26/2/2013 -- 17:28:22 - <Info> - defrag memory usage: <a href="tel:13107056" value="+13107056" target="_blank">13107056</a> bytes, maximum: 33554432<br>
26/2/2013 -- 17:28:22 - <Info> - AutoFP mode using default "Active Packets" flow load balancer<br><br><br>If there any file that would give more details about why the process is failing to start?<br><br>Thanks,<br>
Benson<div><div><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 4:46 PM, Duarte Silva <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:duarte.silva@serializing.me" target="_blank">duarte.silva@serializing.me</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><p dir="ltr">Hi,</p>
<p dir="ltr">that happened to me whe I started Suricata with the init.d script. That's because the init.d script forks Suricata to the background and then creates a pid file before Suricata. If you remove the line that echos the Suricata process identifier to the pid file, it should work fine.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Best regards, <br>
Duarte Silva</p>
<div class="gmail_quote"><div><div>On 26 Feb 2013 21:32, "Benson Mathews" <<a href="mailto:benson.mathews@gmail.com" target="_blank">benson.mathews@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"></div>
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Hi,<br><br>I just installed Suricata 1.4 on my server and I'm attempting to run it with PF_RINGS, but I get the following error while I start suricata.<br>cat /var/log/suricata/suricata-start.log<br>26/2/2013 -- 00:03:18 - <Info> - This is Suricata version 1.4 RELEASE<br>
26/2/2013 -- 00:03:18 - <Info> - CPUs/cores online: 16<br>26/2/2013 -- 00:03:18 - <Info> - Failure when trying to get MTU via ioctl: 19<br>26/2/2013 -- 00:03:18 - <Error> - [ERRCODE: SC_ERR_MISSING_CONFIG_PARAM(118)] - NO logging compatible with daemon mode selected, suricata won't be able to log. Please update 'logging.outputs' in the YAML.<br>
26/2/2013 -- 00:03:18 - <Info> - allocated 3670016 bytes of memory for the defrag hash... 65536 buckets of size 56<br>26/2/2013 -- 00:03:18 - <Info> - preallocated 65535 defrag trackers of size 144<br>26/2/2013 -- 00:03:18 - <Info> - defrag memory usage: <a href="tel:13107056" value="+13107056" target="_blank">13107056</a> bytes, maximum: 33554432<br>
26/2/2013 -- 00:03:18 - <Info> - AutoFP mode using default "Active Packets" flow load balancer<br>26/2/2013 -- 00:03:18 - <Error> - [ERRCODE: SC_ERR_INITIALIZATION(45)] - pid file '/var/run/suricata.pid' exists. Is Suricata already running? Aborting!<br>
<br>I tried deleting the pid file and restarting it but get the same error. I'm new to this, any help would be much appreciated!<br><br>Thanks,<br>Benson<br><br>
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