snort: wrong pid generated

Hi,

I have opensuse 11.2 and installed snort 2.8.5.3-1.1 from the monitor SW repository.

Everything looks fine so far beside a little issue I can not resolve:

starting snort with the /etc/init.d/snortd script produces always under /var/run the file snort_eth0.pid and snort_eth0.pid.lck.

Even though I have configured /etc/sysconfig/snort to use either

INTERFACE=eth1

or

INTERFACE=“eth0 eth1”

After some debugging I have the feeling that /sbin/startproc is playing some tricks on me but I don’t have clue how it generates the “eth0” part of the filename.

Any idea?

kind regards,

Alexander De Bernardi