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problems when running snort with installed rules


Posted by Sost on March 06, 2008 10:17:25

Hi everbody!!! After installing snort 2.7 rules, I tried to run snort in NIDS mode and everything went right till here:

--== Initialization Complete ==--

,,_ -*> Snort! <*-
o" )~ Version 2.7.0.1 (Build 36) i386
'''' By Martin Roesch & The Snort Team: http://www.snort.org/team.html
(C) Copyright 1998-2007 Sourcefire Inc., et al.

Rules Engine: SF_SNORT_DETECTION_ENGINE Version 1.6
Preprocessor Object: SF_SSH Version 1.0
Preprocessor Object: SF_SMTP Version 1.0
Preprocessor Object: SF_FTPTELNET Version 1.0
Preprocessor Object: SF_DNS Version 1.0
Preprocessor Object: SF_DCERPC Version 1.0
Not Using PCAP_FRAMES

Here the system seems to be waiting for an input.
Looks like it is something related to PCAP but it doe s not look very clear.


Thanks!!