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@mybox ~]# chkconfig --list snortd snortd 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off [root@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@mybox ~]# chkconfig snortd off [root@mybox ~]# echo $? 0 [root@mybox ~]# chkconfig --list snortd snortd 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off [root@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 +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ |E|d|u|a|r|d|o| |L|a|n|d|a|v|e|r|i| +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ +-+-+-+-+ +-+-+-+-+-+-+ |G|N|U|-|L|i|n|u|x| |U|s|e|r| |4|3|3|5|1|2| +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ +-+-+-+-+ +-+-+-+-+-+-+ > -----Original Message----- > From: rkbabu.koppula@xxxxxxxxx > Sent: Wed, 5 Aug 2009 14:28:49 +0530 > To: fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > 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 -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
