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Problem About running Snort


From: Agbede Bunmi Michael <bunmiemich4chelsea () yahoo com>
Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2011 05:13:43 -0800 (PST)

My snort is giving the following error messages, please I really need your help. The output on the command prompt is as 
follows:

Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7601]
Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.

C:\Users\Bunmiemich>cd/

C:\>cd snort\bin

C:\Snort\bin>snort -d -T
ERROR: Test mode must be run with a snort configuration file.  Use the '-c' opti
on on the command line to specify a configuration file.
Fatal Error, Quitting..
Could not create the registry key.
C:\Snort\bin>snort -d
Running in packet dump mode

        --== Initializing Snort ==--
Initializing Output Plugins!
pcap DAQ configured to passive.
Acquiring network traffic from "\Device\NPF_{AEC4E4C6-375B-4FA8-9C97-51E881A1D60
8}".
Decoding Ethernet

        --== Initialization Complete ==--

   ,,_     -*> Snort! <*-
  o"  )~   Version 2.9.0.5-ODBC-MySQL-FlexRESP-WIN32 GRE (Build 135)
   ''''    By Martin Roesch & The Snort Team: http://www.snort.org/snort/snort-t
eam
           Copyright (C) 1998-2011 Sourcefire, Inc., et al.
           Using PCRE version: 8.10 2010-06-25
           Using ZLIB version: 1.2.3

Commencing packet processing (pid=5872)
*** Caught Int-Signal
===============================================================================
Run time for packet processing was 22.1000 seconds
Snort processed 0 packets.
Snort ran for 0 days 0 hours 0 minutes 22 seconds
   Pkts/sec:            0
===============================================================================
Packet I/O Totals:
   Received:            0
   Analyzed:            0 (  0.000%)
    Dropped:            0 (  0.000%)
   Filtered:            0 (  0.000%)
Outstanding:            0 (  0.000%)
   Injected:            0
===============================================================================
Breakdown by protocol (includes rebuilt packets):
        Eth:            0 (  0.000%)
       VLAN:            0 (  0.000%)
        IP4:            0 (  0.000%)
       Frag:            0 (  0.000%)
       ICMP:            0 (  0.000%)
        UDP:            0 (  0.000%)
        TCP:            0 (  0.000%)
        IP6:            0 (  0.000%)
    IP6 Ext:            0 (  0.000%)
   IP6 Opts:            0 (  0.000%)
      Frag6:            0 (  0.000%)
      ICMP6:            0 (  0.000%)
       UDP6:            0 (  0.000%)
       TCP6:            0 (  0.000%)
     Teredo:            0 (  0.000%)
    ICMP-IP:            0 (  0.000%)
      EAPOL:            0 (  0.000%)
    IP4/IP4:            0 (  0.000%)
    IP4/IP6:            0 (  0.000%)
    IP6/IP4:            0 (  0.000%)
    IP6/IP6:            0 (  0.000%)
        GRE:            0 (  0.000%)
    GRE Eth:            0 (  0.000%)
   GRE VLAN:            0 (  0.000%)
    GRE IP4:            0 (  0.000%)
    GRE IP6:            0 (  0.000%)
GRE IP6 Ext:            0 (  0.000%)
   GRE PPTP:            0 (  0.000%)
    GRE ARP:            0 (  0.000%)
    GRE IPX:            0 (  0.000%)
   GRE Loop:            0 (  0.000%)
       MPLS:            0 (  0.000%)
        ARP:            0 (  0.000%)
        IPX:            0 (  0.000%)
   Eth Loop:            0 (  0.000%)
   Eth Disc:            0 (  0.000%)
   IP4 Disc:            0 (  0.000%)
   IP6 Disc:            0 (  0.000%)
   TCP Disc:            0 (  0.000%)
   UDP Disc:            0 (  0.000%)
  ICMP Disc:            0 (  0.000%)
All Discard:            0 (  0.000%)
      Other:            0 (  0.000%)
Bad Chk Sum:            0 (  0.000%)
    Bad TTL:            0 (  0.000%)
     S5 G 1:            0 (  0.000%)
     S5 G 2:            0 (  0.000%)
      Total:            0
===============================================================================
Snort exiting

C:\Snort\bin>snort -A console -i2 -c C:\snort\etc\snort.conf -l C:\log\ -K ascii
 -T
Running in Test mode

        --== Initializing Snort ==--
Initializing Output Plugins!
Initializing Preprocessors!
Initializing Plug-ins!
Parsing Rules file "C:\snort\etc\snort.conf"
ERROR: C:\snort\etc\snort.conf(39) Unknown rule type: ipvar.
Fatal Error, Quitting..
Could not create the registry key.
C:\Snort\bin>

Please am using Snort for my work in school and it's very important I resolve this problem. Thanks very much. 
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