[Bro] how to add new event to Bro

Aashish Sharma aashish at uiuc.edu
Wed Apr 6 14:49:10 PDT 2005


Your second question : 

I think due to interdependency of signature related policy files they all need to be loaded or (not loaded) together. 

You need to define use_signatures variable in ../policy/brolite.bro as T (true) for enabling all the signature related policy files to be loaded. 

Aashish Sharma 



On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 05:16:26PM -0400, bchen at cs.ucf.edu wrote:
>    Another problem I met when I tried to run Bro (./bro.rc --start) in Fedora 3.
> Success message was displayed on the screen. But when I check the status, it is
> not running. After I tried to run Bro again, the following error message
> appears:
> =============================================================================
> [root at localhost etc]# ./bro.rc --start
> bro.rc: Running as non-root user root
> bro.rc: Starting .........Warning: bad syntax, perhaps a bogus '-'? See
> /usr/share/doc/procps-3.2.3/FAQ
> bro.rc: Failed to start Bro
> Error in signature (signatures:1803): unknown identifier (dataSizeG100)
> Error in signature (signatures:1815): unknown identifier (dataSizeG100)
> Error in signature (signatures:1838): unknown identifier (dataSizeG100)
> Error in signature (signatures:1850): unknown identifier (dataSizeG100)
> ...................
> .... FAILED
> =============================================================================
> 
> I then comment out the following statements in my locat site, Bro works
> properly.
> 
> redef signature_files += "sig-addendum";
> redef signature_files += "signatures";
> 
> Does anyone know what's this problem?
> 
> thanks for your time
> 
> Bing
> 
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