Re: Error on pulledpork

[Joel Esler <jesler () sourcefire com>]

If they haven't been updated then the date won't change. We only write a shared object rule when plaintext rules won't 
work. 

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> On Sep 26, 2013, at 3:11 AM, Anshuman Anil Deshmukh <anshuman () cybage com> wrote:
>
> Thank you James. It worked. But I have a question based on the output that I get for pulledpork (see output below).
>  
> Question : There is no output generated for creation of stub files, so does it mean that the current stub files 
> doesn’t require any changes? The timestamp when the stub files were created was 30 Aug 2013. No changes thereafter? 
> How often are so_rules updated?
>  
> Thanks.
>  
> ##### Start
>  
>     http://code.google.com/p/pulledpork/
>       _____ ____
>      `----,\    )
>       `--==\\  /    PulledPork v0.7.0 - Swine Flu!
>        `--==\\/
>      .-~~~~-.Y|\\_  Copyright (C) 2009-2013 JJ Cummings
>   @_/        /  66\_  cummingsj () gmail com
>     |    \   \   _(")
>      \   /-| ||'--'  Rules give me wings!
>       \_\  \_\\
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>  
> Checking latest MD5 for snortrules-snapshot-2950.tar.gz....
>         No Match
>         Done
> Rules tarball download of snortrules-snapshot-2950.tar.gz....
>         They Match
>         Done!
> Prepping rules from snortrules-snapshot-2950.tar.gz for work....
>         Done!
> Reading rules...
> Generating Stub Rules....
>         An error occurred: WARNING: ip4 normalizations disabled because not inline.
>  
>         An error occurred: WARNING: tcp normalizations disabled because not inline.
>  
>         An error occurred: WARNING: icmp4 normalizations disabled because not inline.
>  
>         An error occurred: WARNING: ip6 normalizations disabled because not inline.
>  
>         An error occurred: WARNING: icmp6 normalizations disabled because not inline.
>  
>         Done
> Reading rules...
> Setting Flowbit State....
>         Enabled 37 flowbits
>         Done
> Writing /etc/snort/rules/snort.rules....
>         Done
> Generating sid-msg.map....
>         Done
> Writing v1 /etc/snort/sid-msg.map....
>         Done
> Writing /var/log/sid_changes.log....
>         Done
> Rule Stats...
>         New:-------18762
>         Deleted:---0
>         Enabled Rules:----4924
>         Dropped Rules:----0
>         Disabled Rules:---13837
>         Total Rules:------18761
> No IP Blacklist Changes
>  
> Done
> Please review /var/log/sid_changes.log for additional details
> Fly Piggy Fly!
>  
> ##### End
>  
> Regards,
> Anshuman
>  
> From: James Lay [mailto:digitalx00 () gmail com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2013 6:13 PM
> To: Snort
> Subject: Re: [Snort-users] Error on pulledpork
>  
>  
> On Sep 25, 2013, at 6:17 AM, Anshuman Anil Deshmukh <anshuman () cybage com> wrote:
>
>
>  
> Writing /etc/snort/rules....
> Unable to write /etc/snort/rules - Is a directory
> at pulledpork.pl line 1134
>         main::rule_write('HASH(0x300c4b8)', '/etc/snort/rules', undef) called at pulledpork.pl line 2011
>  
> -----------
>  
> Also attached is my pulledpork.pl, pulledpork.conf and permissions for sid-msg.map, snort folder and rules file.
>  
>  
> Regards,
> Anshuman
>  
>  
> From your conf file:
>  
> # What path you want the .rules file containing all of the processed 
> # rules? (this value has changed as of 0.4.0, previously we copied 
> # all of the rules, now we are creating a single large rules file
> # but still keeping a separate file for your so_rules!
> rule_path=/etc/snort/rules
> ##rule_path=/usr/local/etc/snort/rules/snort.rules
>  
> You specified a directory, and the app requires a filename…try /etc/snort/rules/snort.rules
>  
> James
>  
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