There has been a new entry in the Snort file about every minute basically and maybe not so much over night when no one is at work, but definitely more often after it timed out at least until around 6 or 7. I didn't have a SIGSTOP and I dont know if it slept by itself. I actually do want it to run an infinite loop basically so that it will run as long as a new entry comes into the program. Maybe I should just try putting it all in an explicit infinite loop of like x=1 to see if that works.