From e22ba3c8267252fe1680b339785e571416f22e6d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Anoop Saldanha <poonaatsoc@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2010 11:33:44 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] check for the existance of default logging directory

---
 src/suricata-common.h |    1 +
 src/suricata.c        |   14 ++++++++++++++
 src/util-error.h      |    1 +
 3 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/suricata-common.h b/src/suricata-common.h
index f19dd7c..0a996e9 100644
--- a/src/suricata-common.h
+++ b/src/suricata-common.h
@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@
 #include <sys/signal.h>
 #include <sys/types.h>
 #include <sys/socket.h>
+#include <sys/stat.h>
 
 #include <arpa/inet.h>
 #include <netinet/in.h>
diff --git a/src/suricata.c b/src/suricata.c
index 1e16787..2736348 100644
--- a/src/suricata.c
+++ b/src/suricata.c
@@ -300,6 +300,9 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
     int list_unittests = 0;
     int daemon = 0;
 
+    char *log_dir;
+    struct stat buf;
+
     /* initialize the logging subsys */
     SCLogInitLogModule(NULL);
 
@@ -445,6 +448,17 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
         exit(EXIT_SUCCESS);
     }
 
+    /* Check for the existance of the default logging directory which we pick
+     * from suricata.yaml.  If not found, shut the engine down */
+    if (ConfGet("default-log-dir", &log_dir) != 1)
+        log_dir = DEFAULT_LOG_DIR;
+    if (stat(log_dir, &buf) != 0) {
+        SCLogError(SC_ERR_STAT_ERROR, "The logging directory \"%s\" picked from "
+                   "suricata.yaml(default-log-dir), doesn't exist.  Shutting "
+                   "down the engine", log_dir);
+        exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
+    }
+
     /* Since our config is now loaded we can finish configurating the
      * logging module. */
     SCLogLoadConfig();
diff --git a/src/util-error.h b/src/util-error.h
index 950d7ef..e845874 100644
--- a/src/util-error.h
+++ b/src/util-error.h
@@ -84,6 +84,7 @@ typedef enum {
     SC_ERR_NO_URICONTENT_NEGATION,
     SC_ERR_FOPEN_ERROR,
     SC_ERR_HASH_TABLE_INIT_FAILED,
+    SC_ERR_STAT_ERROR,
 } SCError;
 
 const char *SCErrorToString(SCError);
-- 
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