# Bro doctor fails

**URL:** <https://community.zeek.org/t/bro-doctor-fails/5747>\
**Category:** Zeek\
**Created:** [June 25, 2019, 12:55pm UTC](https://community.zeek.org/t/bro-doctor-fails/5747 "2019-06-25T12:55:43Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Allen\_Brian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@Allen\_Brian](https://community.zeek.org/u/Allen_Brian)\
**Post date:** [June 25, 2019, 12:55pm UTC](https://community.zeek.org/t/bro-doctor-fails/5747/1 "2019-06-25T12:55:43Z")

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I had bro doctor working, but then we had an issue/accident in the datacenter and I had to rebuild the manager from scratch. I tried to follow my detailed notes from when I installed it the first time. Now bro doctor isn't working, and I'm trying to figure out why. Any suggestions?

$ sudo ./zeekctl doctor.bro

Warning: ZeekControl plugin uses legacy BroControl API. Use  
'import ZeekControl.plugin' instead of 'import BroControl.plugin'

Warning: Plugin 'doctor' not activated because its init() method raised exception: 'plugin doctor lookup of unknown config option bro'  
Error: unknown command 'doctor.bro'

ZeekControl Version 1.9-49

Thanks for your help,  
-Brian

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**Author:** ![JustinAzoff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/13edae/32.png) [@JustinAzoff](https://community.zeek.org/u/JustinAzoff)\
**Post date:** [June 25, 2019, 1:16pm UTC](https://community.zeek.org/t/bro-doctor-fails/5747/2 "2019-06-25T13:16:00Z")

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gah, looks like I need to change some 'bro's to 'zeek's to work with  
master. If you don't mind editing it real quick until I can get a new  
release out, I think minimally changing this line:

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;self.bro\_binary = self.getGlobalOption("bro")

to

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;self.bro\_binary = self.getGlobalOption("zeek")

should get things working.

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**Author:** ![JustinAzoff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/13edae/32.png) [@JustinAzoff](https://community.zeek.org/u/JustinAzoff)\
**Post date:** [June 25, 2019, 9:09pm UTC](https://community.zeek.org/t/bro-doctor-fails/5747/3 "2019-06-25T21:09:48Z")

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Hi!

I just pushed v 2.0.0 to github that should work on zeek master as  
well as 2.6.x (if not, the older versions are still available)

I also updated the command to now just be 'doctor' instead of  
'doctor.bro' - in older versions you had to have a subcommand, but  
Daniel fixed that for me shortly after I released the first version.

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/zeek/original/1X/f09d732bc2cc7c7cc7e35db67cf4e1d5233ce7a7.png) [@system](https://community.zeek.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [May 6, 2022, 3:46pm UTC](https://community.zeek.org/t/bro-doctor-fails/5747/4 "2022-05-06T15:46:35Z")

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