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Running in Daemon Mode

If you want to run Snort in daemon mode, you can the add -D switch to any combination described in the previous sections. Please notice that if you want to be able to restart Snort by sending a SIGHUP signal to the daemon, you must specify the full path to the Snort binary when you start it, for example: 

/usr/local/bin/snort -d -h 192.168.1.0/24 \
    -l /var/log/snortlogs -c /usr/local/etc/snort.conf -s -D

Relative paths are not supported due to security concerns.


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Steven Sturges 2008-04-01
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