Solution
Please Install the Updated Packages.
Insight
The package included with Mandriva Linux 2008 for psad had two problems. Firstly, it did not depend on perl-IPTables-ChainMgr, which in fact it does require to work. Secondly, the /etc/psad/ip_options file was incorrectly omitted from the package, making psad fail to start.
This updated package fixes both issues.
Affected
psad on Mandriva Linux 2008.0,
Mandriva Linux 2008.0/X86_64