Ladies/Gents,
/etc/init.d/snortd
more snortd
#!/bin/sh
# Description: start up script for snort
# chkconfig: 2345 40 60
#
# Source function library.
. /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions
#
case "$1" in
#
'start')
echo "Starting up Snort..."
/prod/snort/bin/snort -c /prod/snort/etc/snort.conf -D -g snort -u snort -i
eth0 -l /var/log/snort
echo "Done."
;;
#
'stop')
echo "Stopping Snort..."
killproc snort
echo "Done."
;;
#
'restart')
$0 stop
$0 start
;;
#
status)
status snort
;;
#
*)
echo "Usage: $0 {start|stop}"
exit 1
#
esac
exit 0
chkconfig
abrt-ccpp 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:off 5:on 6:off
abrt-oops 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:off 5:on 6:off
abrtd 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:off 5:on 6:off
acpid 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
atd 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
auditd 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
cgconfig 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off
cgred 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off
cpuspeed 0:off 1:on 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
crond 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
haldaemon 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
ip6tables 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
iptables 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
irqbalance 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
kdump 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
lvm2-monitor 0:off 1:on 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
mdmonitor 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
messagebus 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
netconsole 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off
netfs 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
netsaint_statd 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
network 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
ntpd 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
ntpdate 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off
psacct 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off
quota_nld 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off
rdisc 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off
restorecond 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off
rhnsd 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
rngd 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off
rsyslog 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
saslauthd 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off
smartd 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off
snmpd 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
snmptrapd 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off
sshd 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
sysstat 0:off 1:on 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
udev-post 0:off 1:on 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
#Yes - I am aware that it's not in this output, this is because we opted
out of snort chkconfig because I had read
posts that snort can not be configured to autostart in the conventional and
usual fashion on CentOS/RHEL,
Linux vsp-01.kewr5.s.vonagenetworks.net 2.6.32-220.17.1.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP
Thu Apr 26 13:37:13 EDT 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.2 (Santiago)
Kernel \r on an \m
I have tried to implement snort startup on boot via rc.local as well (See
below).
#!/bin/sh
#
# This script will be executed *after* all the other init scripts.
# You can put your own initialization stuff in here if you don't
# want to do the full Sys V style init stuff.
touch /var/lock/subsys/local
/prod/snort/bin/snort -D -u snort -g snort -c /prod/snort/etc/snort.conf -i
eth0
This does not do the trick either so I am out of answers and this point and
defering to the community.