From magnus.anderssen at orange.ch  Wed Mar  7 07:14:38 2001
From: magnus.anderssen at orange.ch (Anderssen Magnus)
Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2001 16:14:38 +0100 
Subject: flushing files to the disk
Message-ID: <130F25996DF0D411A9970002A513A71E02FDAA@VDLAEXC7>

Hi,

	I need to flush my log files. I have experienced Bro not flushing
the files when being stop (Control C). I've read in the manual that there
was
a flush_all() function and I tried to use it but it does not work
(unrecognized
variable). Does it need some special setting to work. 

I'm using Bro version 0.6.

Thanks in advance for the futur help.

Magnus Anderssen


From vern at ee.lbl.gov  Wed Mar  7 10:32:06 2001
From: vern at ee.lbl.gov (Vern Paxson)
Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2001 10:32:06 PST
Subject: flushing files to the disk
In-Reply-To: Your message of Wed, 07 Mar 2001 16:14:38 PST.
Message-ID: <200103071832.f27IW6i21847@daffy.ee.lbl.gov>

> 	I need to flush my log files. I have experienced Bro not flushing
> the files when being stop (Control C). I've read in the manual that there
> was
> a flush_all() function and I tried to use it but it does not work
> (unrecognized
> variable). Does it need some special setting to work. 
> 
> I'm using Bro version 0.6.

flush_all() was added with Bro 0.7, available as a prerelease from

        ftp://ftp.ee.lbl.gov/.vp-bro-pub-0.7a48.tar.gz

Note that HUP'ing Bro 0.7 will by default cause flush_all() to be invoked.

		Vern


From magnus.anderssen at orange.ch  Thu Mar  8 04:47:58 2001
From: magnus.anderssen at orange.ch (Anderssen Magnus)
Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 13:47:58 +0100 
Subject: malformed regular expression
Message-ID: <130F25996DF0D411A9970002A513A71E02FDB5@VDLAEXC7>

Hi,

I'm getting this run-time error:

<some time> rune-time error: attempt to match to a malformed regular
expression.

The problem is that I don't know where it occurs. (in which event, ...)
Do I get this message when trying to write to a file a empty string returned
by Bro?
Is there a way to get more precise error message? To be able to correct my
script.


Thanks

Magnus Anderssen




From kerberos_007 at hotmail.com  Thu Mar  8 09:15:32 2001
From: kerberos_007 at hotmail.com (kerberos kkk)
Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2001 12:15:32 -0500
Subject: redef
Message-ID: <F133BfsL9AEVrgdqbJ50001dff0@hotmail.com>

hi,

Can we do a redef of a variable in side an event ?
I am getting a parse error when i do this.
whereas outside the event/fucntion i am able to do the redef.

Thanks for all the help


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From vern at ee.lbl.gov  Thu Mar  8 09:20:55 2001
From: vern at ee.lbl.gov (Vern Paxson)
Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2001 09:20:55 PST
Subject: malformed regular expression
In-Reply-To: Your message of Thu, 08 Mar 2001 13:47:58 PST.
Message-ID: <200103081720.f28HKtv25228@daffy.ee.lbl.gov>

> I'm getting this run-time error:
> 
> <some time> rune-time error: attempt to match to a malformed regular
> expression.
> 
> The problem is that I don't know where it occurs. (in which event, ...)
> Do I get this message when trying to write to a file a empty string returned
> by Bro?
> Is there a way to get more precise error message? To be able to correct my
> script.

As usual, when reporting a problem like this, please include your script(s)
so it can be reproduced.

		Vern


From vern at ee.lbl.gov  Thu Mar  8 09:23:16 2001
From: vern at ee.lbl.gov (Vern Paxson)
Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2001 09:23:16 PST
Subject: redef
In-Reply-To: Your message of Thu, 08 Mar 2001 12:15:32 PST.
Message-ID: <200103081723.f28HNGQ25263@daffy.ee.lbl.gov>

> Can we do a redef of a variable in side an event ?
> I am getting a parse error when i do this.
> whereas outside the event/fucntion i am able to do the redef.

redef is a global declaration.  It's used to override run-time
initializations, so it wouldn't make much sense as a declaration
local to a procedure.

		Vern


From kerberos_007 at hotmail.com  Fri Mar  9 11:38:22 2001
From: kerberos_007 at hotmail.com (kerberos kkk)
Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2001 14:38:22 -0500
Subject: redef
Message-ID: <F209carcR4ZDgC81Tbd00003fd4@hotmail.com>

Thanks.
Does bro allow to change Global var from inside a function somehow ?


>From: Vern Paxson <vern at ee.lbl.gov>
>To: "kerberos kkk" <kerberos_007 at hotmail.com>
>CC: bro at lbl.gov
>Subject: Re: redef
>Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2001 09:23:16 PST
>
> > Can we do a redef of a variable in side an event ?
> > I am getting a parse error when i do this.
> > whereas outside the event/fucntion i am able to do the redef.
>
>redef is a global declaration.  It's used to override run-time
>initializations, so it wouldn't make much sense as a declaration
>local to a procedure.
>
>		Vern

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From vern at ee.lbl.gov  Fri Mar  9 11:45:36 2001
From: vern at ee.lbl.gov (Vern Paxson)
Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2001 11:45:36 PST
Subject: redef
In-Reply-To: Your message of Fri, 09 Mar 2001 14:38:22 PST.
Message-ID: <200103091945.f29Jjar29684@daffy.ee.lbl.gov>

> Does bro allow to change Global var from inside a function somehow ?

You certainly can assign to it (unless it's "const").  But initialization
is only done outside of functions.

		Vern