Re: Need help running snort!

[Jeremy Hoel <jthoel () gmail com>]

your path shows '/etc/snort/../etc/snort/rules/local.rules'  which
equates to /etc/etc/snort/rules/local.rules.

what does your RULE_PATH show?

A quick fix would be to make it like this: 'var RULE_PATH /etc/snort/rules'

On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 6:25 PM, Akinwale Fasuru <fashman2k1 () yahoo com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>  I get this error when i try to run snort -c /etc/snort/snort.conf
>
> ERROR: /etc/snort/../etc/snort/rules/local.rules(0) Unable to open rules file 
> "/etc/snort/../etc/snort/rules/local.rules": No such file or directory.
>
> I checked the /etc/snort/rules directory and found local.rules is in there. Pls what am i doing wrong?
>
> Wale
>
>
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