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Re: Errors that don't cause problems / Problems without error message
From: Chris Green <cmg () sourcefire com>
Date: Tue, 09 Jul 2002 08:07:49 -0400
kai.hanisch () philips com writes:
Hi there, I have snort 1.8.6 running on debian woody with 2.4.19pre9, and snort is behaving strange. In syslog it says:FATAL ERROR: ERROR: Unable to open rules file:$PATH/snort.conf or$PATH//$PATH/snort.conf
Are you running this process chrooted? sounds like you are hupping it. Going to have to make that work again and probably revert to ancient semantics for config files..
which cannot be true as snort runs and logging works fine. The error occurs every morning when cron.daily is running. This is just a matter of interest, but what really disturbs me is that portscans are not being logged. Though /var/log/snort/portscan.log is created, nothing is logged there (Configuration in snort.conf says: "preprocessor portscan: $HOME_NET 4 3 portscan.log"). I have 644 permissions on alert and portscan.log, owner ist root:snort. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Kai
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