Anyone have one of these for bro. The script I have just hangs and never starts bro.
Are you running from ports or did you compile manually?
Did you see this link (Author provides a startup script):
http://www.sysadminwiki.net/site/doku.php/services/bro/bro_security_monitor_freebsd_installation_guide
Also seems like maybe there was a problem with ports and broctl.
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports-bugs/2013-January/247421.html
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