Hey, I'm kinda new to linux I was using M$ Windows for a few years, (learned about linux from shell-accounts)
and now that I have my own linux box I need to learn how to do the security part. I did some research learned about SUID programs and so on.. Did some permission checking, set up iptables, blah blah.. anyways, Now I was told all I need is to set up some kind of IDS. So I downloaded Snort Version 1.9.1, I read the man pages and help but I still cant figure out how to really use it like I want to. I want to run it as a daemon so I used 'snort -D' but it didn't do anything, I checked 'ps' and snort was not listed. Can someone kinda tell me how it works, I would like to make it run in the background and choose where the log files go. Thanks..