Re: Pulledpork 0.74 and Ubuntu 18.04 so_rules

[James Lay via Snort-users <snort-users () lists snort org>]

In a holding pattern until we get the results of this...thanks Joel!

James

On 2019-07-24 09:03, Joel Esler (jesler) via Snort-users wrote:
> Thanks for letting us know, let me have our rule builders take a look.
>
> > On Jul 23, 2019, at 8:19 PM, Jefferson, Shawn
> > <Shawn.Jefferson () bcferries com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I wanted to bring this to JJC and/or Joel’s attention.  I just
> > spent some time troubleshooting why my SO_rules weren’t updating
> > with 2.9.14.0 and Pulledpork 0.7.4.  Basically, pulledpork.pl is
> > manipulating the arch retrieved from uname –a to change the
> > “_” to a “-“.  All the Ubuntu precompiled so_rules have a
> > directory structure listed as “x86-64” EXCEPT for Ubuntu-18-4,
> > which has “x86_64”.  Commenting out the replacement in
> > pulledpork.pl fixed it for me, but I guess there should be an
> > official fix either from JJC or Snort/Talos.  Also, Pulledpork just
> > fails silently to update your SO rules if it can’t find the
> > $Distro/$arch files.  Maybe an error or warning message? ;)
> >
> > PS. A complaint (?), or maybe more of a discussion point about the
> > recent version of pulledpork.  Now (admittedly it’s been a while
> > since I’ve updated) that pulledpork insists on putting the
> > so_rules into the main file instead of giving you a choice, it’s
> > difficult (impossible?) to update your text rules separately from
> > your so_rules.  I was updating my text rules twice a day, and only
> > updating my so_rules once a week since a so_rule update requires a
> > restart of the snort process instead of just a reload.  Maybe I
> > should be updating text and so_rules at the same time though?  I
> > guess I could be missing rule updates that are important to get
> > quickly by only updating so_rules once a week.  For now I have
> > decided to update text and so_rules at the same time and live with
> > the restart of the snort processes.  However, I think more choice in
> > what pulledpork does with your so_rules is better, but perhaps
> > there’s a reason the sostub_path option was deprecated?
> >
> > Thanks,
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