start snort in IDS mode

["Plantier, Spencer" <spencer.plantier () stratech com>]

I got IDS to start but I got the following output:

opt/snort/bin/snort -c /opt/snort/etc/snort.conf -i hme0
Running in IDS mode

Initializing Network Interface hme0

        --== Initializing Snort ==--
Initializing Output Plugins!
Decoding Ethernet on interface hme0
Initializing Preprocessors!
Initializing Plug-ins!
Parsing Rules file /opt/snort/etc/snort.conf

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Initializing rule chains...
,-----------[Flow Config]----------------------
| Stats Interval:  0
| Hash Method:     2
| Memcap:          10485760
| Rows  :          4099
| Overhead Bytes:  16400(%0.16)
`----------------------------------------------
No arguments to frag2 directive, setting defaults to:
    Fragment timeout: 60 seconds
    Fragment memory cap: 4194304 bytes
    Fragment min_ttl:   0
    Fragment ttl_limit: 5
    Fragment Problems: 0
    Self preservation threshold: 500
    Self preservation period: 90
    Suspend threshold: 1000
    Suspend period: 30
Stream4 config:
    Stateful inspection: ACTIVE
    Session statistics: INACTIVE
    Session timeout: 30 seconds
    Session memory cap: 8388608 bytes
    State alerts: INACTIVE
    Evasion alerts: INACTIVE
    Scan alerts: INACTIVE
    Log Flushed Streams: INACTIVE
    MinTTL: 1
    TTL Limit: 5
    Async Link: 0
    State Protection: 0
    Self preservation threshold: 50
    Self preservation period: 90
    Suspend threshold: 200
    Suspend period: 30
    Enforce TCP State: INACTIVE
    Midstream Drop Alerts: INACTIVE

Stream4_reassemble config:
    Server reassembly: INACTIVE
    Client reassembly: ACTIVE
    Reassembler alerts: ACTIVE
    Zero out flushed packets: INACTIVE
    flush_data_diff_size: 500
    Ports: 21 23 25 53 80 110 111 143 513 1433 
    Emergency Ports: 21 23 25 53 80 110 111 143 513 1433 
HttpInspect Config:
    GLOBAL CONFIG
      Max Pipeline Requests:    0
      Inspection Type:          STATELESS
      Detect Proxy Usage:       NO
      IIS Unicode Map Filename: /opt/snort/etc/unicode.map
      IIS Unicode Map Codepage: 1252
    DEFAULT SERVER CONFIG:
      Ports: 80 8080 8180 
      Flow Depth: 300
      Max Chunk Length: 500000
      Inspect Pipeline Requests: YES
      URI Discovery Strict Mode: NO
      Allow Proxy Usage: NO
      Disable Alerting: NO
      Oversize Dir Length: 500
      Only inspect URI: NO
      Ascii: YES alert: NO
      Double Decoding: YES alert: YES
      %U Encoding: YES alert: YES
      Bare Byte: YES alert: YES
      Base36: OFF
      UTF 8: OFF
      IIS Unicode: YES alert: YES
      Multiple Slash: YES alert: NO
      IIS Backslash: YES alert: NO
      Directory Traversal: YES alert: NO
      Web Root Traversal: YES alert: YES
      Apache WhiteSpace: YES alert: NO
      IIS Delimiter: YES alert: NO
      IIS Unicode Map: GLOBAL IIS UNICODE MAP CONFIG
      Non-RFC Compliant Characters: NONE
rpc_decode arguments:
    Ports to decode RPC on: 111 32771 
    alert_fragments: INACTIVE
    alert_large_fragments: ACTIVE
    alert_incomplete: ACTIVE
    alert_multiple_requests: ACTIVE
telnet_decode arguments:
    Ports to decode telnet on: 21 23 25 119 
Portscan Detection Config:
    Detect Protocols:  TCP UDP ICMP IP
    Detect Scan Type:  portscan portsweep decoy_portscan
distributed_portscan
    Sensitivity Level: Low
    Memcap (in bytes): 10000000
    Number of Nodes:   36900

ERROR: /opt/snort/etc/../rules(1) => NULL rule type
Fatal Error, Quitting..
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