[Bro] Problem running bro.rc --start

[jean-philippe luiggi]

On Mon, 24 Nov 2008 16:34:46 +0100
"M. GAD" <masgad at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi everybody,
> I have installed Bro on UBUNTU. When I try to start it with "bro.rc
> --start", I receive the following error:
> 
> bro.rc: Starting ..........bro.rc: Failed to start Bro
> line 1: error: can't open hostname.bro
> ... FAILED
> 
> 
> Any help or hint to fix this error?
> Thank you in advance for your kind help.
> 
> Regards,
> Masgad
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Hello,

Just take a look at the file "bro.cfg" and search for 

===
# Bro policy paths
BROPATH="/opt/share/bro-1.4/site:/opt/share/bro-1.4/share/bro:/opt/share/bro-1.4/share/bro/sigs:/opt/share/bro-1.4/share/bro/time-machine"
export BROPATH
===

Check that "hostname.bro" is in one of these directories, if not create
it.

Hope this will help.

With regards,

Jean-Philippe.