Snort 1.9.0 Redhat 8 snortd start HELP????

[fearx24]

I am setting up a snort box in redhat using the manual at www.snort.org and its a snort installation manual for Redhat. Anyway there is this script that runs to start it on boot and its called snortd

When I start the script using /etc/rc.d/init.d/snortd start it says ok as if it started but when I check the status I get:

snort dead but subsys locked! what the heck is going on I cant get rid of this and I have googled searched everywhere and have tried every suggestion with no avail. Anyone know what this is or have anyhelp. spent endless hours on this.

Thanks Nick

[fearx24]

Well Im getting closer, I found the error to be in the snort.conf file because the script works when I comment out the output database line.

[STORMPROOF]

RUNNING REDHAT 7.3

did you ever get this to work, I added this to my /etc/rc.local file

"/etc/snort/snort -v snort.conf -d -D -i eth0"
"/etc/snort/snort -v snort.conf -d -D -i eth1"

and rebooted my IDS and checked my processes with

"ps -e"

and snort was running!
If you got the snortd script to work let me know. Could you please post the script file, thanks.....
:p