setting up snort for the first time

["Bob Dixon" <bob.dixon () attbi com>]

I am following Steven Scott's pdf guide to setting up Snort, MySQL, and
ACID on Redhat 7.3. I am at the point where I have copied Steven's snort
startup script "snortd". When I run "snortd start", I get a response of
[OK], but a "ps -ef | grep snort" doesn't turn up the process. When I
try to run snort manually with the following command, here's what I get.
Any help is appreciated. Thanks...

[root@mars root]# snort -A full -c /etc/snort/snort.conf
Log directory = /var/log/snort

Initializing Network Interface eth0

        --== Initializing Snort ==--
Decoding Ethernet on interface eth0
Initializing Preprocessors!
Initializing Plug-ins!
Initializating Output Plugins!
Parsing Rules file /etc/snort/snort.conf

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Initializing rule chains...
No arguments to frag2 directive, setting defaults to:
    Fragment timeout: 60 seconds
    Fragment memory cap: 4194304 bytes
    Fragment min_ttl:   0
    Fragment ttl_limit: 5
    Fragment Problems: 0
Stream4 config:
    Stateful inspection: ACTIVE
    Session statistics: INACTIVE
    Session timeout: 30 seconds
    Session memory cap: 8388608 bytes
    State alerts: INACTIVE
    Evasion alerts: INACTIVE
    Scan alerts: ACTIVE
    Log Flushed Streams: INACTIVE
    MinTTL: 1
    TTL Limit: 5
No arguments to stream4_reassemble, setting defaults:
     Reassemble client: ACTIVE
     Reassemble server: INACTIVE
     Reassemble ports: 21 23 25 53 80 143 110 111 513
     Reassembly alerts: ACTIVE
     Reassembly method: FAVOR_OLD
ERROR /etc/snort/snort.conf(243) => Unknown argument to http_decode
preprocessor: "unicode"

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[root@mars root]# /etc/rc.d/init.d/snortd start
Starting snort: [  OK  ]
[root@mars root]# ps -ef | grep snort
[root@mars root]#



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