Snort not started on pfsense 2.0 beta 4
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Sep 5 13:04:43 SnortStartup[12689]: Toggle for 22295_fxp0…
Sep 5 13:04:43 snort[19383]: FATAL ERROR: User "snort" unknown.
Sep 5 13:04:43 snort[19383]: FATAL ERROR: User "snort" unknown.
Sep 5 13:04:43 SnortStartup[19447]: Interface Rule START for 0_22295_fxp0…2.0-BETA4 (i386)
built on Sat Sep 4 11:29:52 EDT 2010
FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE
i386SNORT 2.8.6.1 pkg v. 1.33
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For some reason post install code did not work on your installation.
Reinstall or do this in the command line.
/usr/sbin/pw groupadd snort -g 920
and
/usr/sbin/pw useradd snort -u 920 -c "Snort User" -d /nonexistent -g snort -s /sbin/nologin
James