Snort looking for invalid rules directory

[Ryan Bateman <Ryan-Bateman () smartestenergy com>]

Hi all,

I'm having difficulty getting Snort up and running and I was wondering if anyone could help.

I am in the middle of setting ups snort for the first time on Fedora 23. I have configured pulledpork for auto rules 
download. As you can see from the picture below, the test to see if pulledpork has worked tries to manually run Snort, 
which gives me the below error, as it looks for /etc/snort//etc/snort/rules/local.rules which clearly doesn't exist. I 
have looked in snort.conf and I can see a line that says include $RULE_PATH/local.rules which I thought may be the 
issue, but the var for $RULE_PATH is what it's supposed to be, /etc/snort/rules

I have no idea what else could be causing this. Any ideas?

Kind Regards,

smartestenergy

Ryan Bateman
Ipswich IT Support Engineer

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