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Re: Fatal Error, Quitting..
From: James Riden <j.riden () massey ac nz>
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2004 09:49:12 +1200
dlimanov () sct com writes:
For some reason my snort install is blowing up loading rules file with the following error: "ERROR: Unable to open rules file: local.rules or /etc/snort/local.rules Fatal Error, Quitting.." The problem here that it's trying to load the rules from /etc/snort/ and it's not there, since rules are located in /etc/snort/rules/ directory. I have checked my snort.conf file and for the life of me cannot see where it's getting /etc/snort/ from! Is there any other place where snort will get it's configuration, even when I run like this: snort -c /etc/snort/snort.conf ? Is there some other config location that I'm missing?
Specify the right snort.conf file with -c on the command line if you need to. Then in snort.conf: # Path to your rules files (this can be a relative path) var RULE_PATH /etc/rules cheers, Jamie -- James Riden / j.riden () massey ac nz / Systems Security Engineer Information Technology Services, Massey University, NZ. GPG public key available at: http://www.massey.ac.nz/~jriden/ ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: The Robotic Monkeys at ThinkGeek For a limited time only, get FREE Ground shipping on all orders of $35 or more. Hurry up and shop folks, this offer expires April 30th! http://www.thinkgeek.com/freeshipping/?cpg=12297 _______________________________________________ Snort-users mailing list Snort-users () lists sourceforge net Go to this URL to change user options or unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/snort-users Snort-users list archive: http://www.geocrawler.com/redir-sf.php3?list=snort-users
Current thread:
- Fatal Error, Quitting.. dlimanov (Apr 26)
- RE: Fatal Error, Quitting.. Paul Martin (Apr 26)
- Re: Fatal Error, Quitting.. James Riden (Apr 26)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- RE: Fatal Error, Quitting.. Harper, Patrick (Apr 26)
- RE: Fatal Error, Quitting.. dlimanov (Apr 26)
- RE: Fatal Error, Quitting.. Bob Walder (Apr 27)