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Re: snort error config option "detection" ...


From: Adam Szabo <adamx001 () gmail com>
Date: Sun, 25 Oct 2009 17:51:50 +0100

Yes, it sees the traffic, but the mysql database is empty. The tables are
there but all empty.
So after i exit snort, i see the summary that a lot of packets were
captured, but 0 ALERTS, 0 LOGGED.

Adam Szabo

On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 2:45 PM, GBRUNN <Gregory.Brunn () compucom com> wrote:

 Have you verified that snort is seeing traffic that would be my first
step.


Run snort as a packet sniffer

# snort -dev.



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*From:* Adam Szabo [mailto:adamx001 () gmail com]
*Sent:* Sunday, October 25, 2009 9:08 AM
*To:* snort-users () lists sourceforge net
*Subject:* Re: [Snort-users] snort error config option "detection" ...

Thank you all. My ubuntu was all messed up so i reinstalled the whole
system and it works now.

I successfully installed BASE and i see the web surface but there are 0
alerts. I'm behind a router, but there should be alerts on my local network
also, am i right? Snort is running since half an hour.

Adam Szabo

On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 6:35 PM, Nigel Houghton <nhoughton () sourcefire com>wrote:

 On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 1:15 PM, Adam Szabo <adamx001 () gmail com> wrote:
Detection: Search-Method = AC-BNFA-Q
ERROR: /etc/snort/snort.conf(273) Config option "detection" can only be
configured once.

Adam Szabo

On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 6:23 PM, Nigel Houghton <
nhoughton () sourcefire com>
wrote:

On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 3:47 AM, Adam Szabo <adamx001 () gmail com>
wrote:
Still not working. The configuration is the default i downloaded from
snort.com. I only changed the HOME_NET and EXTERNAL_NET variables
and
the
rules path.

Adam Szabo

On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 10:43 PM, Russ Combs <rcombs () sourcefire com>
wrote:

You've got a typo on every line!  (see below)

With those fixes I can run either lines 1 and 3 or lines 2 and 3
through
snort -T.

If that doesn't fix it, send your conf.

Russ
On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 2:15 PM, Adam Szabo <adamx001 () gmail com>
wrote:

I have these:
config detection: search-method lowmen

lowmen -> lowmem


config detection: search method ac-bnfa max_queue_events 5

search method -> search-method


config event_queue: max_queue 8 log 3 order_events content_lenght

content_lenght -> content-length

Adam Szabo

On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 8:09 PM, Matt Olney <molney () sourcefire com

wrote:

Is it possible that you have multiple detection statements?

grep detection snort.conf

On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 1:58 PM, Adam Szabo <adamx001 () gmail com>
wrote:
Hi,
I'm running Snort 2.8.5 on Ubuntu linux and i'm getting this
error
when i
start Snort (snort -c /etc/snort/snort.conf):

"Detection: Search-Method = AC-BNFA-Q
ERROR: /etc/snort/snort.conf(273) Config option "detection" can
only
be
configured once."

I did not change anything near line 273, so i don't know why is
this
happening. Can you help me?

Thank you,
Adam Szabo




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What exactly is the error you are getting now?

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Then you aren't using the snort.conf from the tarball with only the
edits you say you made.

I get no such error with the standard snort.conf. I suggest you go
back to step 1, copy the snort.conf to /etc/snort/snort.conf and try
running snort with the -T option and probably with the -c option to
make sure you are getting the right snort.conf. (you probably want to
edit first to make sure your rule path is correct)

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