Re: Snort rules error out

[Alex Kirk <akirk () sourcefire com>]

Check that you've not got an incomplete line somewhere above that in your
snort.conf. I've seen odd issues like this happen if you've got a line with
a trailing " \ " on it, making Snort read further lines improperly and
generally screwing things up.

On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 9:06 AM, Rusty Shacklefurd <idssecurityteam () gmail com
> wrote:

> Hello All,
>
> I am new to this discuss/mailing list but have been having
> a reoccurring issue with getting snort to process the rules that are being
> run.  I have a standard configuration using Snort version 2.9.2.1 and the
> registered rules pack set for that version as well.  Each time I run snort
> with the -T switch to test the configuration I get an error that looks like
> this:
> "ERROR: /filepath/torules/rules/attack-responses.rules(27) Unknown
> ClassType: bad-unknown"
>
> For clarity I can tell you that the include classifications.config
> statement is present in my snort.conf file and that when I look at the
> classification.config file I can see that a bad-known config classification
> that reads as follows:
> "config classification: bad-unknown, Potentially Bad Traffic, 2"
>
> When I try to comment out the attack-response.rules line in the snort.conf
> file the next rule on the list (backdoor.rules) errors out in the same
> fashion.  Commenting out all the rules isn't a viable option for me.  Any
> ideas as to why my classifications file isn't being read by the config and
> transferred into ClassTypes for the rules?
>
>
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