Pulledpork 0.74 and Ubuntu 18.04 so_rules

["Jefferson, Shawn" <Shawn.Jefferson () bcferries com>]

Hi,

I wanted to bring this to JJC and/or Joel's attention.  I just spent some time troubleshooting why my SO_rules weren't 
updating with 2.9.14.0 and Pulledpork 0.7.4.  Basically, pulledpork.pl is manipulating the arch retrieved from uname -a 
to change the "_" to a "-".  All the Ubuntu precompiled so_rules have a directory structure listed as "x86-64" EXCEPT 
for Ubuntu-18-4, which has "x86_64".  Commenting out the replacement in pulledpork.pl fixed it for me, but I guess 
there should be an official fix either from JJC or Snort/Talos.  Also, Pulledpork just fails silently to update your SO 
rules if it can't find the $Distro/$arch files.  Maybe an error or warning message? ;)

PS. A complaint (?), or maybe more of a discussion point about the recent version of pulledpork.  Now (admittedly it's 
been a while since I've updated) that pulledpork insists on putting the so_rules into the main file instead of giving 
you a choice, it's difficult (impossible?) to update your text rules separately from your so_rules.  I was updating my 
text rules twice a day, and only updating my so_rules once a week since a so_rule update requires a restart of the 
snort process instead of just a reload.  Maybe I should be updating text and so_rules at the same time though?  I guess 
I could be missing rule updates that are important to get quickly by only updating so_rules once a week.  For now I 
have decided to update text and so_rules at the same time and live with the restart of the snort processes.  However, I 
think more choice in what pulledpork does with your so_rules is better, but perhaps there's a reason the sostub_path 
option was deprecated?

Thanks,
Shawn

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