RE: Fatal Error, Quitting..

["Harper, Patrick" <patrick.harper () phns com>]

look in your snort.conf for the RULE_PATH
 
 
var RULE_PATH /etc/snort/rules

 

Patrick S. Harper | CISSP RHCT MCSE
Information Security Engineer
patrick.harper () phns com



 

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From: dlimanov () sct com [mailto:dlimanov () sct com] 
Sent: Monday, April 26, 2004 2:22 PM
To: snort-users () lists sourceforge net
Subject: [Snort-users] Fatal Error, Quitting..



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? 
Thanks,

Dimitri




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