[Bro] broctl startup error

[Azoff, Justin S]

> On Aug 30, 2017, at 6:38 PM, Allen, Brian <BrianAllen at wustl.edu> wrote:
> 
> Hi, 
> I just upgraded my BRO cluster machines from ubuntu 14.02 to 16.04.  I just installed the latest version of BRO on the manager.  All the machines in the cluster return this:
> 
> $ bro --version
> bro version 2.5-294
> 
> 
> But when I try to run broctl on the manager to start it up again, I get this error:
> 
> $ sudo broctl
> Warning: the SitePolicyStandalone option is deprecated (use SitePolicyScripts instead).
> 
> Welcome to BroControl 1.7-7
> 
> Type "help" for help.
> 
> [BroControl] > check
> manager scripts failed.
> /bin/sh: 1: Syntax error: "(" unexpected


Well, that's a new one.. I wonder if you have a '(' in one of your settings..

Does

broctl config | grep '('

or

grep '^[^#].*(' -r /usr/local/bro/etc/

return anything?

I was able to reproduce a similar error by adding

    env_vars=foo=(bar

to the config.


-- 
- Justin Azoff