Clarification on so_rules

[James Lay <jlay () slave-tothe-box net>]

All,

I'm wanting to make sure I have this correct, so here goes.  According 
to so_rules/src/README:

To use the shared object rules, the rule stub files must be generated.
To do this, follow these instructions:

  1. Make sure the dynamic preprocessor and dynamic engine paths are
     defined in snort.conf, for example:

  dynamicpreprocessor directory /usr/local/lib/snort_dynamicpreprocessor
  dynamicengine /usr/local/lib/snort_dynamicengine/libsf_engine.so

  2. Make sure the path to the location of the shared object rules is
     also defined in snort.conf, for example:

  dynamicdetection directory /usr/local/lib/snort_dynamicrule

  3. Dump the stub rules by issuing the command:

  snort -c /usr/local/etc/snort/snort.conf 
--dump-dynamic-rules=/usr/local/etc/snort/so_rules

  4. Use a variable to define the path to the stub rules, for example:

  var SO_RULE_PATH /usr/local/etc/snort/so_rules

  5. Include the generated stub rule files in snort.conf in the same way
     the regular rules are included, for example:

  include $SO_RULE_PATH/netbios.rules


I use pulledpork, so instead, /opt/etc/rules/so_rules/so_rules.rules is 
created...so far so good.  My question is, what happens with the actual 
.so files?  Do I delete them..move them...something else?  Thanks for 
any insight.

James

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