cannot start snort service

["Donnie Green" <d_greenjr () hotmail com>]

Problem Description:
When I attempt to start the service using the command "service snort start" 
I get the following error:

Starting Intrusion Database System: SNORT
/etc/init.d/snort: pidof: command not found

1) I am running snort-1.9.1 on RH8.0
2) Default init is 5
3) /etc/init.d/snort linked to /etc/init.d/rc5.d/S11snort
4) snort exec: /usr/local/bin/snort
5) snort.conf: /usr/local/snort/etc/snort.conf

Additional Information:
I am successful in starting snort from the command line using
/usr/local/bin/snort -c /usr/local/snort/etc/snort.conf -i eth0

Configuration Files:

/etc/init.d/snort (which has a symbolic link to S11snort in rc5.d)
#!/bin/bash
# $Id: S99snort,v 1.1 2001/12/18 22:14:37 cazz Exp $
# /etc/init.d/snort : start or stop the SNORT Intrusion Database System
#
# Written by Lukasz Szmit <ptashek () scg gliwice pl>
#
# Configuration

# set config file & path to snort executable
SNORT_PATH=/usr/local/bin
CONFIG=/usr/local/snort/etc/snort.conf

# set interface
IFACE=eth0

# set GID/Group Name
SNORT_GID=nid

# other options
OPTIONS="-D"

# End of configuration


test -x $SNORT_PATH/snort || exit 0

case "$1" in
     start)
        echo "Starting Intrusion Database System: SNORT"
        $SNORT_PATH/snort -c $CONFIG -i $IFACE -g $SNORT_GID $OPTIONS
        if [ "`pidof $SNORT_PATH/snort`" ]; then
                echo "SNORT is up and running!"
        else
                exit 0
.......skipping.....






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