On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 08:00:26AM -0000, Thomas Madhavan wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> I'm a pretty new user to Linux, and I want to set up some sort of protection
> for my box. I have snort installed and I'm looking for rulesets - the
> problem I have is this:
>
> When I run snort, it runs in a terminal. How exactly do I set snort to just
> run in the background, collecting unusual packets? I'm sure there must be a
> way.
>
There is a way, and it's even well-documented, in fact if you run snort with
no arguments you will see this:
-D Run Snort in background (daemon) mode
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