Re: disable Verifying Preprocessor Configurations

[Russ Combs <rcombs () sourcefire com>]

On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 5:57 PM, Hussein Bahaidarah <husseinb () gmail com>wrote:

> Hello,
>
> 50K might be a lot. However, none of them need a preprocessor. My concern
> is why preprocessing verification is still taking place?

It is verifying an empty list of preprocessors.  Happens very quickly.  :)
That line is always output.

The next step has to do with fast pattern setup and that is what is taking
some time.


> On Jul 7, 2011, at 11:46 PM, Joel Esler wrote:
>
> You are loading 50 thousand rules, and you are wondering why Snort is
> taking a long time to start up?
>
>
> On Jul 7, 2011, at 5:25 PM, Hussein Bahaidarah wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > Yes, all lines are commented out. by the way, I am using beta version
> 2.9.1. Snort initialization shows that no preprocessor rules are used.
> > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > Initializing rule chains...
> > 50001 Snort rules read
> >   50001 detection rules
> >   0 decoder rules
> >   0 preprocessor rules
> > 50001 Option Chains linked into 1 Chain Headers
> > 0 Dynamic rules
> > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >
> > On Jul 7, 2011, at 9:46 PM, waldo kitty wrote:
> >
> > On 7/7/2011 15:26, Hussein Bahaidarah wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > I am not using any preprocessor.
> >
> > really? no preprocessors at all?? each and every one of them are
> commented out
> > in your snort.conf?
> >
> > > However, still snort does the "Verifying Preprocessor Configurations"
> step at the loading stage. Is there any way to turn this off as it takes
> long time as the rule file grows.
> > > "
> > > Rule application order:
> activation->dynamic->pass->drop->sdrop->reject->alert->log
> > > Verifying Preprocessor Configurations!
> > > "
> > >
> > > Thanks
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All of the data generated in your IT infrastructure is seriously valuable.
Why? It contains a definitive record of application performance, security 
threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes 
sense of it. IT sense. And common sense.
http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-c2

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