How can I tell if spade is running?

["Matthew Collins" <Matthew.Collins () northernregistrars co uk>]

I've just put some more memory in our snort box, so I thought I'd try enabling spade & stream4 as well as upgrade to 
1.8.1

My question is. How can I tell if it is doing anything. It dosn't look like it is working, there are no output files 
anywhere, but I don't know if it creates them as soon as it starts (like snort logging) or just when it needs them.

Here's the relavent bits from the conf file.

var SPADEDIR /var/log/spade.
#
preprocessor spade: -1 $SPADEDIR/spade.rcv $SPADEDIR/log.txt 3 50000


I've tried sending snort SIGUSR1 which the docs say should make spade do a checkpoint, but nothing appears in the 
/var/log/spade directory.
Snort is compiled from source. There are no warnings in the startup log.






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