On Wednesday 23 March 2005 10:47, Fabiano Petrone wrote: > At the restart (with the Gnome GUI) I've noted that if I pass the > > "/usr/local/bin/snort -c /etc/snort/snort.conf -i eth0 -g snort" > > via gnome terminal, snort starts successfully but the console > remains open with the same previous message: is it normal? Yes this is normal as you're running Snort in the foreground above. If you want it to run in the background, use the -D parameter to run it as a daemon. Regards, Mike Klinke