snort doesn't start in daemon mode

[no_hope]

I emerged snort and for some reason I can't start it either manually or using
/etc/init.d/snort start. When I do the latter, I get [ok] from start-stop-daemon but there is no snort process after that.

I tried emerging it on another box and it works, both using the startup script and when I start it manually, but I really have to run snort on the machine where it's not working.

I don't get any errors when I try to start it manually, it just silently exits.

if I do snort -v it works, it seems it just doesn't want to run in daemon mode.

Did anybody have similar problems with snort?

[longinoa]

double check that the config is named the correct file.

[drspewfy]

you should check your logs, it says everything about yhou daemons..

/var/log/* (daemon,message,etc...


when the snort daemon doesnt start well, i go there..


hope helps