# bro.rc file missing

**URL:** <https://community.zeek.org/t/bro-rc-file-missing/1566>\
**Category:** Zeek\
**Created:** [January 5, 2010, 11:20am UTC](https://community.zeek.org/t/bro-rc-file-missing/1566 "2010-01-05T11:20:43Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Priyadarsan\_Roy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7c8e57/32.png) [@Priyadarsan\_Roy](https://community.zeek.org/u/Priyadarsan_Roy)\
**Post date:** [January 5, 2010, 11:20am UTC](https://community.zeek.org/t/bro-rc-file-missing/1566/1 "2010-01-05T11:20:43Z")

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Hi,

I downloaded the latest version of bro 1.5. On installation following

./configure --prefix=/usr/local/bro  
make  
sudo make install  
sudo make install-brolite

towards the end of make install-brolite I got this

make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/products/bro-1.5.1/aux'  
/bin/chown -R `cat scripts/bro_user_id` /usr/local/bro/  
cat: scripts/bro\_user\_id: No such file or directory  
/bin/chown: missing operand after `/usr/local/bro/'  
Try `/bin/chown --help' for more information.  
make: [install-brolite] Error 1 (ignored)

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**Author:** ![Kevin\_Lo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e95f7d/32.png) [@Kevin\_Lo](https://community.zeek.org/u/Kevin_Lo)\
**Post date:** [January 5, 2010, 3:30pm UTC](https://community.zeek.org/t/bro-rc-file-missing/1566/2 "2010-01-05T15:30:41Z")

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Priyadarsan Roy wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I downloaded the latest version of bro 1.5. On installation following
> 
> ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/bro  
> make  
> sudo make install  
> sudo make install-brolite
> 
> towards the end of make install-brolite I got this
> 
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/products/bro-1.5.1/aux'  
> /bin/chown -R `cat scripts/bro_user_id` /usr/local/bro/  
> cat: scripts/bro\_user\_id: No such file or directory  
> /bin/chown: missing operand after `/usr/local/bro/'  
> Try `/bin/chown --help' for more information.  
> make: [install-brolite] Error 1 (ignored)  
> \*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*  
> Please run "/usr/local/bro/etc/bro.rc --start" to start bro  
> \*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*
> 
> Now I see that there is no file /usr/local/bro/etc/bro.rc on searching the archives I see that other users have got the same problem and  
> that there is a patch file for an earlier version.
> 
> I am installing this on an Ubuntu installation version 8.10. Am I missing some thing here to solve this issue ?

Brolite is depreciated in 1.5.1, please use broctl instead.

> Thanks and Regards,  
> P Roy

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Kevin

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**Author:** ![robin](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/community.zeek.org/robin/32/599_2.png) [@robin](https://community.zeek.org/u/robin)\
**Post date:** [January 5, 2010, 3:39pm UTC](https://community.zeek.org/t/bro-rc-file-missing/1566/3 "2010-01-05T15:39:22Z")

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Note that BroLite is no longer supported and will be removed in the  
future. That said, there's a patch for 1.4 in the tracker, see  
[http://tracker.icir.org/bro/ticket/51](http://tracker.icir.org/bro/ticket/51) . The patch was however never  
confirmed to fix the problem. It might or might not work (and is  
completelty untested with 1.5 afaik).

Robin

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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, 3:39pm UTC](https://community.zeek.org/t/bro-rc-file-missing/1566/4 "2022-05-06T15:39:00Z")

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