[Oisf-users] Suricata startup error - [ERRCODE: SC_ERR_INITIALIZATION(45)]

[Duarte Silva]

Hi,

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.

Best regards,
Duarte Silva
On 26 Feb 2013 21:32, "Benson Mathews" <benson.mathews at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> 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.
> cat /var/log/suricata/suricata-start.log
> 26/2/2013 -- 00:03:18 - <Info> - This is Suricata version 1.4 RELEASE
> 26/2/2013 -- 00:03:18 - <Info> - CPUs/cores online: 16
> 26/2/2013 -- 00:03:18 - <Info> - Failure when trying to get MTU via ioctl:
> 19
> 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.
> 26/2/2013 -- 00:03:18 - <Info> - allocated 3670016 bytes of memory for the
> defrag hash... 65536 buckets of size 56
> 26/2/2013 -- 00:03:18 - <Info> - preallocated 65535 defrag trackers of
> size 144
> 26/2/2013 -- 00:03:18 - <Info> - defrag memory usage: 13107056 bytes,
> maximum: 33554432
> 26/2/2013 -- 00:03:18 - <Info> - AutoFP mode using default "Active
> Packets" flow load balancer
> 26/2/2013 -- 00:03:18 - <Error> - [ERRCODE: SC_ERR_INITIALIZATION(45)] -
> pid file '/var/run/suricata.pid' exists. Is Suricata already running?
> Aborting!
>
> 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!
>
> Thanks,
> Benson
>
>
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