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| <html><div style='background-color:'><DIV class=RTE>My snort XP box was working great and now this error? I have acid and mysql installed. How can I resolve this? What is the cause? I even reinstalled snort!</DIV>
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<DIV class=RTE>C:\Snort>snort -c etc\snort_conf -i 1<BR>Running in IDS mode<BR>Log directory = log</DIV>
<DIV class=RTE>Initializing Network Interface \Device\NPF_{61B352CA-7DC8-411F-867D-CF8489DAF960<BR>}</DIV>
<DIV class=RTE> --== Initializing Snort ==--<BR>Initializing Output Plugins!<BR>Decoding Ethernet on interface \Device\NPF_{61B352CA-7DC8-411F-867D-CF8489DAF960<BR>}<BR>Initializing Preprocessors!<BR>Initializing
Plug-ins!<BR>Parsing Rules file etc\snort_conf</DIV>
<DIV class=RTE> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
+++++++++++<BR>Initializing rule chains...<BR>ERROR: Unable to open rules file: etc\snort_conf or etc\etc\snort_conf<BR>Fatal Error, Quitting..</DIV>
<DIV class=RTE>C:\Snort>snort -c etc\snort_conf -i 1<BR>Running in IDS mode<BR>Log directory = log</DIV>
<DIV class=RTE>Initializing Network Interface \Device\NPF_{61B352CA-7DC8-411F-867D-CF8489DAF960<BR>}</DIV>
<DIV class=RTE> --== Initializing Snort ==--<BR>Initializing Output Plugins!<BR>Decoding Ethernet on interface \Device\NPF_{61B352CA-7DC8-411F-867D-CF8489DAF960<BR>}<BR>Initializing Preprocessors!<BR>Initializing
Plug-ins!<BR>Parsing Rules file etc\snort_conf</DIV>
<DIV class=RTE> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
+++++++++++<BR>Initializing rule chains...<BR>ERROR: Unable to open rules file: etc\snort_conf or etc\etc\snort_conf<BR>Fatal Error, Quitting..</DIV>
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| sekure 2004-09-29, 7:57 pm |
| What's the path and the full name of your snort conf file?
----- Original Message -----
From: RD R <careergeek@hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 11:27:01 -0400
Subject: [Snort-users] ERROR Unable to open rules file: etc\snort_conf
or etc\etc\snort_conf
To: snort-users@lists.sourceforge.net
My snort XP box was working great and now this error? I have acid and
mysql installed. How can I resolve this? What is the cause? I even
reinstalled snort!
C:\Snort>snort -c etc\snort_conf -i 1
Running in IDS mode
Log directory = log
Initializing Network Interface \Device\NPF_{61B352CA-7DC8-411F-867D-CF8489DAF960
}
--== Initializing Snort ==--
Initializing Output Plugins!
Decoding Ethernet on interface \Device\NPF_{61B352CA-7DC8-411F-867D-CF8489DAF960
}
Initializing Preprocessors!
Initializing Plug-ins!
Parsing Rules file etc\snort_conf
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
+++++++++++
Initializing rule chains...
ERROR: Unable to open rules file: etc\snort_conf or etc\etc\snort_conf
Fatal Error, Quitting..
C:\Snort>snort -c etc\snort_conf -i 1
Running in IDS mode
Log directory = log
Initializing Network Interface \Device\NPF_{61B352CA-7DC8-411F-867D-CF8489DAF960
}
--== Initializing Snort ==--
Initializing Output Plugins!
Decoding Ethernet on interface \Device\NPF_{61B352CA-7DC8-411F-867D-CF8489DAF960
}
Initializing Preprocessors!
Initializing Plug-ins!
Parsing Rules file etc\snort_conf
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
+++++++++++
Initializing rule chains...
ERROR: Unable to open rules file: etc\snort_conf or etc\etc\snort_conf
Fatal Error, Quitting..
C:\Snort>
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