First run of snort

[Jiju Menon <security4rrm () gmail com>]

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Hello,

Thank you for the help in locating the snort.conf file. The snort.conf
file was in the /etc directory of the source code.

This is what I did.....

1) In the snort.conf file I changed the following parameters for the first run.

var HOME_NET <Internal IP/mask>

var RULE_PATH /root/snortDir/snort-2.3.ORC2/rules

2) The snort was run as root with the command

snort -c /etc/short/snort.conf

Problem:

ERROR: Unable to open rules file:
/root/snortDir/snort-2.3.ORC2/rules/local.rules or
/etc/snort//root/snortDir/snort-2.3.ORC2/rules/local.rules
Fatal Error, Quitting..

Why is this?

I am also going through some help documents on the snort website. But
I did not come across this problem.

Thank You.


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