Re: Issue extracting my snortrules

[Joel Esler <jesler () sourcefire com>]

On Oct 4, 2012, at 11:04 AM, Akinwale Fasuru <fashman2k1 () yahoo com> wrote:

> Hello,
> Please I need help extracting my snort rules with this command 
> # tar -xzvf snortrules-2931.tar.gz
> I get this erro message 
>
> zip: stdin: not in gzip format
>
> tar: Child returned status 1
>
> tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
>
> I downloaded the file with this command # # wget
> http://www.snort.org/sub-rules/snortrules-snapshot-
> 2923.tar.gz/<oinkcode> -O snortrules-2931.tar.gz 

I have an interesting question, while it doesn't answer your question directly..

Why are you downloading the 2923 ruleset and renaming it 2931?

Why not just download the 2931 ruleset?

--
Joel Esler
Senior Research Engineer, VRT
OpenSource Community Manager
Sourcefire


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