Error when starting up snort: bash:!/bin/sh/usr/local/bin/snort :Eent not found
 

Hi,

I was installing snort on my linux machine.When I stsrt up snort I got the following error msg.
Does anyboby know the answer?


[root@CORE-2-02 snort]# !/bin/sh/usr/local/bin/snort -A fast -d -u snort -g snort -D -c /etc/snort/snort.conf
bash: !/bin/sh/usr/local/bin/snort: event not found
[root@CORE-2-02 snort]#


If anybody have any solution please reply me.

thanks and regards
cynthia

If you typed the above on the command line its wrong.
1) You shouldn't have "!" in the beginning.
2) You would need to have a space between "/bin/sh" and "/usr/local/bin/snort" if snort was a shell script.
3) You don't even need "/bin/sh" if "/usr/local/bin/snort" is executable (ls -l /usr/local/bin/snort to see permissions in the left most column - see "man chmod" for details on how to make a file executable.)

Your prompt ends in "#" so it may be you're thinking you need "#!/bin/sh" because you've seen that somewhere for shell scripts. In this case the "#" in your prompt is just a character and has no meaning. the "#!/bin/sh" syntax would need to appear as the first line of a script and tells the script to be interpreted using /bin/sh - this is common in scripts so that they run as expected if the user is not already using the same shell.