its a typo in the syntax! file: etc\snort_conf changed to snort.conf all is cool now thanks!
>From: sekure <sekure@gmail.com>
>Reply-To: sekure <sekure@gmail.com>
>To: RD R <careergeek@hotmail.com>
>CC: snort-users@lists.sourceforge.net
>Subject: Re: [Snort-users] ERROR Unable to open rules file: etc\snort_conf or etc\etc\snort_conf
>Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 12:51:13 -0400
>
>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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