[Snort-users] Snort database problem

[Laura]

Hello people, i had snort running fine until yesterday when i decided to
clear all the tables rows ... whenever i wanted to start snort some
error message came up so ... i decided to delete the snort database ...

now i want to create again that database with the following command (the
same command i've used before): 

/usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql -u root -p < ./contrib/create_mysql snort
But i get this error:

ERROR 1049: Unknown database "snort"

Can anyone give me a clue of what is going on?

TIA

laura