[Bro] broctl cron locks all bro processes

Daniel Thayer dnthayer at illinois.edu
Mon Apr 29 08:25:03 PDT 2013


On 04/29/2013 01:07 AM, C. L. Martinez wrote:

> First of all. sorry for the later response. I have tried to run broctl
> cron manually and this is the error message:
>
> warning: cannot get list of local IP addresses
>
> .. and I don't understand it ...
>
> Bro process runs as a root user ...
>

The warning message you saw just means that a script
called "local-interfaces" failed for some reason.
Try running this script (replace <prefix> with the bro install
prefix directory that you are using):
<prefix>/share/broctl/scripts/local-interfaces

and then immediately type "echo $?"




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