snort problem

[Ed Landaveri]

It means that the snortd daemon its supposed to start at boot time but for design (I might be wrong on this) the creators wouldn't want you to run snort at all times, only when you need it, it doesn't so! Look:

[root at mybox ~]# chkconfig --list snortd
snortd         	0:off	1:off	2:on	3:on	4:on	5:on	6:off
[root at mybox ~]# service snortd status
snort dead but subsys locked

But if I start snort manually, when I want it to, it will successfully. I think you successfully can change it's boot options:
[root at mybox ~]# chkconfig snortd off
[root at mybox ~]# echo $?
0
[root at mybox ~]# chkconfig --list snortd
snortd         	0:off	1:off	2:off	3:off	4:off	5:off	6:off
[root at mybox ~]# !sync
sync;sync;sync;sync;sync;sync;sync;sync;sync;sync;sync;sync;sync;sync

This way you won't receive the error message but will be able to start snort whenever you want!

Regards

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: rkbabu.koppula at gmail.com
> Sent: Wed, 5 Aug 2009 14:28:49 +0530
> To: fedora-list at redhat.com
> Subject: snort problem
> 
> While system is booting I getting the following message"
> 
> starting: snort   [FAILED]
> 
> What is this and how to rectify it?
> 
> Thank you
> 
> Kishore