RE: [SLUG] Troubles with SNORT

[Howard Lowndes <lannet@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I tried that and it didn't work, but I have since found the problem - the
config file needed to have the absolute paths to the rules files rather
than assuming relative paths.

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Howard.
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On Thu, 19 Jul 2001, Marty Richards wrote:

> Hi Howard,
>
> Tried commenting out the "include local.rules" entry in snort.conf?
>
> Cheers,
> Marty
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Howard Lowndes [mailto:lannet@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2001 12:33 PM
> To: Mail List - SLUG
> Subject: [SLUG] Troubles with SNORT
>
>
> I am having problems getting SNORT started
>
> It complains that:
> Jul 19 12:22:31 gw snort: ERROR: Unable to open rules file: local.rules
>
> This file exists:
> -rw-r--r--    1 snort    snort           0 Apr 17 07:12
> /etc/snort/local.rules
>
> Admittedly it is zero length but I don't see that that should make a
> difference.
>
> Running strace on snort does not give any clue, in fact local.rules does
> not even get a guernsey.
>
> Pass the cluestick please.
>
>