[Bro] Calling external scripts on extracted files

[Hosom, Stephen M]

Vikram,


I'm the author of the package that you're using. Happy to help!


I don't know why it is precisely that your script is not working, however, I have good examples of how to do this type of activity within the plugin.


Check out the file store-files-by-md5.bro withing the plugins directory.


This script uses the mv command to move files and rename them based on their hash once Bro finishes extracting them and is a good example of how to perform an action on a file once it has been extracted "the right way".


Please let me know if you have any issues... You may find that I am more responsive to the issues page for the project on GitHub.


Thanks,


Stephen

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Hi,

I am using the bro file-extraction script from the bro-pkg manager and want to run a python script as soon as the file is completely extracted.

Currently I am calling the script using the Bro Exec::run command after modifying the script but often times the script is running before the file has finished extracted and is failing as a result.

How can I make it so that Bro calls the script after file has already been extracted?

I thought maybe using file_state_remove would help but even in that case I am getting
/Input::READER_RAW: Child process exited with non-zero return code 127
which I am assuming means the script was run before the file as truly extracted?

Any advice would be much appreciated.

Regards

Vikram