Re: snort installation error

[Sylvain Chillaud <sylvain.chillaud () gmail com>]

Hi Jun,

the answer is in your error message : you can't have !any in a rule -> means
'nothing'. You can't detect based on nothing.
Change that in the appropriate rule and it should be ok.

Regards,

Sylvain

2010/8/10 Jun Wan <junwei_wan () hotmail com>

>  Hi,
>
> I installed SNORT on a fresh Ubuntu 10.04 by following
> http://it.thelibrarie.com/weblog/?p=515
>
> snort -c /etc/snort/snort.conf -i eth0
>
> I get the following:
>
> Running in IDS mode
> --== Initializing Snort ==--
> Initializing Output Plugins!
> Initializing Preprocessors!
> Initializing Plug-ins
>
> ....pls see the attached details of "Snort installation error.rtf"...
>
>
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> Initializing rule chains...
> Warning: /etc/snort/rules/dos.rules(42) => threshold (in rule) is
> deprecated; use detection_filter instead.
> ERROR: /etc/snort/rules/community-smtp.rules(13) => !any is not allowed
> Fatal Error, Quitting..
>
> Can't find much info via "google", so I would like to have your help.
>
> Any info and help would be much appreciated.
>
> Thanks for your patience with my many Snort questions.
>
> Regards
>
> John
>
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