Re: running oinkmaster - Error: unable to download.....

[Paul Schmehl <pauls () utdallas edu>]

--On Wednesday, October 29, 2003 12:07 PM -0800 Snortty <cwcwcwg () yahoo com> 
wrote:
> I'm trying to test-run oinkmaster.pl by creating a
> empty rules directory as: /tmp/rules/, and then run
> the script as below:
>
> # oinkmaster.pl -o /tmp/rules
> Downloading rules archive from
> http://www.snort.org/dl/rules/snortrules-stable.tar.gz...
>
> /usr/local/bin/oinkmaster.pl: Error: unable to
> download rules from
> http://www.snort.org/dl/rules/snortrules-stable.tar.gz
> (got error code from wget).
OK.  So what happens when you run wget from the commandline?  Same thing? 
Do you have a firewall rule that's preventing you from accessing snort.org? 


Paul Schmehl (pauls () utdallas edu)
Adjunct Information Security Officer
The University of Texas at Dallas
AVIEN Founding Member
http://www.utdallas.edu


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