CentOS - Aug 2012 - Snort: Problems configuring for init/start upon bootup rc.conf not working

Ladies/Gents,
/etc/init.d/snortd
more snortd
#!/bin/sh
# Description: start up script for snort
# chkconfig: 2345 40 60
#
# Source function library.
. /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions
#
case "$1" in
#
'start')
echo "Starting up Snort..."
/prod/snort/bin/snort -c /prod/snort/etc/snort.conf -D -g snort -u snort -i
eth0 -l /var/log/snort
echo "Done."
;;
#
'stop')
echo "Stopping Snort..."
killproc snort
echo "Done."
;;
#
'restart')
$0 stop
$0 start
;;
#
status)
status snort
;;
#
*)
echo "Usage: $0 {start|stop}"
exit 1
#
esac
exit 0

chkconfig
abrt-ccpp       0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:off 5:on 6:off
abrt-oops       0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:off 5:on 6:off
abrtd           0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:off 5:on 6:off
acpid           0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
atd             0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
auditd         0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
cgconfig       0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off
cgred           0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off
cpuspeed       0:off 1:on 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
crond           0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
haldaemon       0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
ip6tables       0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
iptables       0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
irqbalance     0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
kdump           0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
lvm2-monitor   0:off 1:on 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
mdmonitor       0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
messagebus     0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
netconsole     0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off
netfs           0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
netsaint_statd 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
network         0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
ntpd           0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
ntpdate         0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off
psacct         0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off
quota_nld       0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off
rdisc           0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off
restorecond     0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off
rhnsd           0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
rngd           0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off
rsyslog         0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
saslauthd       0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off
smartd         0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off
snmpd           0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
snmptrapd       0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off
sshd           0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
sysstat         0:off 1:on 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
udev-post       0:off 1:on 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
#Yes - I am aware that it's not in this output, this is because we opted
out of snort chkconfig because I had read
posts that snort can not be configured to autostart in the conventional and
usual fashion on CentOS/RHEL,


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Thu Apr 26 13:37:13 EDT 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.2 (Santiago)
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I have tried to implement snort startup on boot via rc.local as well (See
below).

#!/bin/sh
#
# This script will be executed *after* all the other init scripts.
# You can put your own initialization stuff in here if you don't
# want to do the full Sys V style init stuff.

touch /var/lock/subsys/local
/prod/snort/bin/snort -D -u snort -g snort -c /prod/snort/etc/snort.conf -i
eth0


This does not do the trick either so I am out of answers and this point and
defering to the community.