unable to start snort

["Nick Scheider" <Nicks () benchmark-net com>]

Hi I was wondering if anyone has scene this before.   Could it be
something wrong with my snortd file?
 Thanks in advance Nick
 
[root@d1 root]# ./snortd start
Starting snort: ERROR: User "snort" unknown
Fatal Error, Quitting..
                                                           [FAILED]
[root@d1 root]#
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