Re: [Snort-users] new snort install, error when starting snort service

WEB-MISC is a vrt ruleset.  Not community.

How did you install Snort?  Via package?

Joel


On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 04:37:28PM -0400, it looks like Michael Giornesto sent 
me:
> tried rules update to latest community version...no luck.  Also PCRE = 
> version 6.6
>
> ...still resulting in same error when attempting to start snort service
>
> How do I determine where the error is located?
>
> Thanks,
> Mike
>
>
> Justin Heath wrote:
> > Looks like you are running an old revision of rule 3545. Update your
> > rules to the latest and try again.
> >
> > Also, make sure you are running a version of pcre >= 4.0.
> >
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Justin Heath
> >
> > On 4/18/07, Michael Giornesto <mcg12@psu.edu> wrote:
> > >  I have a new install that is throwing an error when trying to start the
> > > snort service...certainly seems to be a config error in
> > > /etc/snort/snort.conf...but I am unsure how to locate problem.
> > >
> > >  ERROR: ERROR /etc/snort/rules/web-misc.rules Line 452 => unable to 
> > > parse
> > > pcre regex "fn=Eye\d{4}_\d{2}.log/Rmsi"
> > >
> > >  Line 452 in /etc/snort/rules/web-misc.rules shows...
> > >
> > >  alert tcp $EXTERNAL_NET any -> $HOME_NET 8090 (msg:"WEB-MISC TrackerCam
> > > ComGetLogFile.php3 log information disclosure"; 
> > > flow:to_server,established;
> > > content:"/ComGetLogFile.php3"; alert tcp $EXTERNAL_NET any -> 
> > > $HOME_NET 8090
> > > (msg:"WEB-MISC TrackerCam ComGetLogFile.php3 log information 
> > > disclosure";
> > > flow:to_server,established; content:"/ComGetLogFile.php3";
> > >
> > >
> > >  running on...
> > >  FC6 2.6.20
> > >  Snort 2.6.1.4
> > >  Apache 2.2.3
> > >  Mysql 5.0.27
> > >
> > >  Any suggestions are appreciated
> > >
> > >  Thanks,
> > >  Mike
> > >
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