Create a Bash init script for Suricata - bash

Question

I'm running an older version "1.1" of Suricata on my Fedora 14 System. It was installed through yum and as such doesn't have a working init script due to some issues that I've read about. Is there a simple way to include the following in a generic init script so that suricata autostarts when the system boots.
Thanks for any help/direction.

Answer 1

Try this on for size: "call it suricata and place it in your /etc/init.d directory
#!/bin/bash
#
# Init file for suricata
#
#
# chkconfig: 345 52 48
# description: Network Intrusion Detection System
#
# processname: Suricata
# pidfile: /var/run/suricata.pid
source /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions
### Read configuration
[ -r "$SYSCONFIG" ] && source "$SYSCONFIG"
RETVAL=0
prog="suricata"
desc="Suricata IDS"
start() {
echo -n $"Starting $desc ($prog): "
daemon suricata -c /etc/suricata.yaml -i eth0
RETVAL=$?
echo
[ $RETVAL -eq 0 ] && touch /var/lock/subsys/$prog
return $RETVAL
}
stop() {
echo -n $"Shutting down $desc ($prog): "
killproc $prog
RETVAL=$?
echo
[ $RETVAL -eq 0 ] && rm -f /var/lock/subsys/$prog
return $RETVAL
}
restart() {
stop
start
}
case "$1" in
start)
start
;;
stop)
stop
;;
restart)
restart
;;
reload)
reload
;;
condrestart)
[ -e /var/lock/subsys/$prog ] && restart
RETVAL=$?
;;
status)
status $prog
RETVAL=$?
;;
*)
echo $"Usage: $0 {start|stop|restart|reload|condrestart|status}"
RETVAL=1
esac
exit $RETVAL
depending on your system, I'm not running Fedora 14, you may need to provide the absolute path to the suricata binary. Mine is /usr/local/bin/suricata
You should also consider updating or at least compiling from source this gives you a make install-full option that does all of this for you now including installation of an init script. You can download it from the suricata open info sec website