Re: Snort does not deamonize

[Eoin Miller <eoin.miller () trojanedbinaries com>]

On 1/28/2010 5:13 PM, Paul Schmehl wrote:
> Frustration.  I was getting sick and tired of having to kill snort and then
> start it in the background in order to get it to work.  I'd tried about
> everything else I could think of, so I started it without the q (-D instead of
> -Dq) and it worked.
>
>   Was that introduced with 2.8.5(.1)?
>
> No idea.  Someone else setup the box.  I'd never used the -q switch before, so
> I don't know if this was a longstanding problem or recently introduced.  Maybe
> Nigel can answer that.
>
>   It definitely worked before.
>
> Glad I could help.
>
>    

You guys can also just add the following line to your snort.conf file 
and it will daemonize:

config daemon

We try to keep everything in the conf files instead of passing stuff via 
command line switches, but it is six in one hand, half a dozen in the other.

-- Eoin

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