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-[Unit]
-Description=Snort NIDS Daemon
-After=syslog.target network.target
-
-[Service]
-Type=simple
-ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/snort -q -c /etc/snort/snort.conf 
-
-[Install]
-WantedBy=multi-user.target