Re: Clarification on so_rules

[Joel Esler <jesler () sourcefire com>]

Pulledpork should take are of everything for you. You don't have to do anything except turn them on via the snort.conf 

And yes, you leave them there. 

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Joel Esler

> On Aug 9, 2013, at 12:07 PM, James Lay <jlay () slave-tothe-box net> wrote:
>
> All,
>
> I'm wanting to make sure I have this correct, so here goes.  According 
> to so_rules/src/README:
>
> To use the shared object rules, the rule stub files must be generated.
> To do this, follow these instructions:
>
>  1. Make sure the dynamic preprocessor and dynamic engine paths are
>     defined in snort.conf, for example:
>
>  dynamicpreprocessor directory /usr/local/lib/snort_dynamicpreprocessor
>  dynamicengine /usr/local/lib/snort_dynamicengine/libsf_engine.so
>
>  2. Make sure the path to the location of the shared object rules is
>     also defined in snort.conf, for example:
>
>  dynamicdetection directory /usr/local/lib/snort_dynamicrule
>
>  3. Dump the stub rules by issuing the command:
>
>  snort -c /usr/local/etc/snort/snort.conf 
> --dump-dynamic-rules=/usr/local/etc/snort/so_rules
>
>  4. Use a variable to define the path to the stub rules, for example:
>
>  var SO_RULE_PATH /usr/local/etc/snort/so_rules
>
>  5. Include the generated stub rule files in snort.conf in the same way
>     the regular rules are included, for example:
>
>  include $SO_RULE_PATH/netbios.rules
>
>
> I use pulledpork, so instead, /opt/etc/rules/so_rules/so_rules.rules is 
> created...so far so good.  My question is, what happens with the actual 
> .so files?  Do I delete them..move them...something else?  Thanks for 
> any insight.
>
> James
>
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