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Re: Why all the rules parsing errors?
From: Don Heffernan <donheff () cais net>
Date: Sat, 04 Aug 2001 20:35:45 -0400
Thanks to everyone who wrote. I had simply left the old executable in place when I installed the new version. Once I corrected that and commented out about 50 rules it is working fine. When I get a few minutes I will try to figure out what is up with the non-working rules. Thanks, Don Dragos Ruiu wrote:
I have parsing the keywords for correctness still on my todo.... cheers, --dr On Sat, 04 Aug 2001, Don Heffernan wrote:You are probably correct. I installed an rpm over a previous version I compiled myself from source. As you might guess, I am not clear on how all this works. By the way, while I was screwing around I found your snortpp program and got it going. It cleaned up all of my rules and put them in one file - but of course my parsing errors remain. I will screww around some more and report back. Thanks, Don Dragos Ruiu wrote:Hunch: You did the make and then you didn't do the make install and the old snort is earlier in your path than ./snort.... (Not that I would ever make such a silly mistake, nope... Just a hunch... ;-) cheers, --dr On Sat, 04 Aug 2001, Andrew R. Baker wrote:It sounds like you are somehow still running the old version of snort. What version is it reporting when it starts up? -Andrew --- Don Heffernan <donheff () cais net> wrote:I just upgraded from snort 1.3 or something to 1.8p1. I then downloaded the latest ruleset I saw posted (1.7). I had to edit snort.conf to get lots of spaces out and finally got it working, but when it gets to the rules include files I am getting errors that would indicate that most of the rules are invalid. The first error (line 4 in exploits) is "bad TCP flag = "+". The relevant portion of the line reads: "...; flags: A+; content:..." The problem is there are countless lines that use this same construction - are they all wrong? I commented out the first 7 lines in exploits (passing by the first bunch of A+ lines) and then got an error in line 8: "Unknown Keyword "reference" in rule! Once again, the error is present in countless lines. The relevant section of line 8 is: "...; reference: arachnids,492;)" Can anyone help me out here? If you hadn't already guessed I am not familiar with the proper syntax. -- Don Heffernan heffernan.cais.net _______________________________________________ Snort-users mailing list Snort-users () lists sourceforge net Go to this URL to change user options or unsubscribe: http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/snort-users Snort-users list archive: http://www.geocrawler.com/redir-sf.php3?list=snort-users__________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger http://phonecard.yahoo.com/ _______________________________________________ Snort-users mailing list Snort-users () lists sourceforge net Go to this URL to change user options or unsubscribe: http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/snort-users Snort-users list archive: http://www.geocrawler.com/redir-sf.php3?list=snort-users-- Dragos Ruiu <dr () dursec com> dursec.com ltd. / kyx.net - we're from the future gpg/pgp key on file at wwwkeys.pgp.net or at http://dursec.com/drkey.asc-- Don Heffernan heffernan.cais.net-- Dragos Ruiu <dr () dursec com> dursec.com ltd. / kyx.net - we're from the future gpg/pgp key on file at wwwkeys.pgp.net or at http://dursec.com/drkey.asc
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- Why all the rules parsing errors? Don Heffernan (Aug 04)
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- Re: Why all the rules parsing errors? Don Heffernan (Aug 04)
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