[Bro] Host Key Verification Failed

Dane Wullen brot212 at googlemail.com
Wed Aug 3 09:39:17 PDT 2016


Hey Daniel,

well it worked. I was able to submit the command "install", "start" and 
"stop", but everytime with LANG=C. How can I avoid that I have to type 
in LANG=C all the time?

Could you explain me what I did wrong or what the command "LANG=C" does? 
Thanks alot. :)

Dane


Am 03.08.2016 um 17:03 schrieb Daniel Thayer:
> Could you try running this command:
> LANG=C broctl install
>
> Let me know if that works or not.
>
>
> On 8/3/16 5:59 AM, Dane Wullen wrote:
>> Hello there,
>>
>> I've tried to install Bro on a Ubuntu 16.04 virtual machine (VirtualBox)
>> with following guide:
>>
>> http://knowm.org/how-to-install-bro-network-security-monitor-on-ubuntu/
>> <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__knowm.org_how-2Dto-2Dinstall-2Dbro-2Dnetwork-2Dsecurity-2Dmonitor-2Don-2Dubuntu_&d=CwMFaQ&c=8hUWFZcy2Z-Za5rBPlktOQ&r=Bi5qPBnY0NmYPqnRTPj_AfXQKpfQTZUpCzpfFBcawv0&m=F34LY1zuKAkgaGWslI2qGRFFNj-ndAVOVzKjRyRPkBw&s=W8GD3LcgP5BwEW7sFEFWEB4wvJ1PGLLf3hXxhQkkqu0&e=> 
>>
>>
>> After the installation, I started broctl and tryped "install", but I
>> reveiced an error message:
>>
>> Host key verification failed.
>> Error: cannot create (some of the) directories 
>> /usr/local/bro,/usr/local/bro/logs,/usr/local/bro/spool,/usr/local/bro/spool/tmp 
>> on node bro
>>
>> I want to run Bro on a single machine (so no cluster at all), I 
>> checked the node.cfg, it looks like this:
>>
>> [bro]
>> type=standalone
>> host=localhost
>> interface=eth0
>>
>> Of course I installed a SSH Server (apt-get install openssh-server), and
>> successfully connected to my VM with several divices.
>>
>> There was a common problem in this Mailing-List, but unfortunatly it
>> remaind unsolved...
>>
>> http://mailman.icsi.berkeley.edu/pipermail/bro/2015-July/008697.html
>> <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__mailman.icsi.berkeley.edu_pipermail_bro_2015-2DJuly_008697.html&d=CwMFaQ&c=8hUWFZcy2Z-Za5rBPlktOQ&r=Bi5qPBnY0NmYPqnRTPj_AfXQKpfQTZUpCzpfFBcawv0&m=F34LY1zuKAkgaGWslI2qGRFFNj-ndAVOVzKjRyRPkBw&s=p3paIyqindeHv6mgVDCwer8Qma1k8fx-kDlmi7krhg0&e=> 
>>
>>
>> I'm new to linux and bro, also, english is not my native language, so
>> please forgive me my faults. :)
>>
>> I would be glad to hear from you guys!
>>
>> Thanks alot!
>>
>> brot
>>
>>
>>
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