# can not start bro

**URL:** <https://community.zeek.org/t/can-not-start-bro/3165>\
**Category:** Zeek\
**Created:** [June 27, 2014, 4:42am UTC](https://community.zeek.org/t/can-not-start-bro/3165 "2014-06-27T04:42:49Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Russell\_Fulton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Russell\_Fulton](https://community.zeek.org/u/Russell_Fulton)\
**Post date:** [June 27, 2014, 4:42am UTC](https://community.zeek.org/t/can-not-start-bro/3165/1 "2014-06-27T04:42:49Z")

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I had a series of problems on one sensor (disk full and consequent issues) and now when I try

broctl start

it tries to start the manager and just hangs.

rful011@secmontst01:/opt/bro/etc$ sudo broctl start  
warning: removing stale lock  
starting manager …

after killing it I find:

rful011@secmontst01:/opt/bro/etc$ cat ~sensors/data/dmzo/bro-spool/manager/stderr.log  
nohup: failed to run command `/run-bro': No such file or directory

timestamp is current.

Bro is installed using securityoinion-bro — I have tried removing and installing it again but it does not make any difference.

Any ideas on what to look for.

Russell

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**Author:** ![Daniel\_Thayer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8dc957/32.png) [@Daniel\_Thayer](https://community.zeek.org/u/Daniel_Thayer)\
**Post date:** [June 27, 2014, 6:46am UTC](https://community.zeek.org/t/can-not-start-bro/3165/2 "2014-06-27T06:46:26Z")

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You probably forgot to run "broctl install".

-Daniel

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**Author:** ![Russell\_Fulton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Russell\_Fulton](https://community.zeek.org/u/Russell_Fulton)\
**Post date:** [June 27, 2014, 7:20am UTC](https://community.zeek.org/t/can-not-start-bro/3165/3 "2014-06-27T07:20:27Z")

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> You probably forgot to run "broctl install”.

I’m an idiot! but it would be nice if broctl start did some sanity checking!

I manage my sensors with puppet — I need to add and exec to run broctl install if the bro-spool/installed-scripts… does not exist after the config files are put in place.

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**Author:** ![Vlad\_Grigorescu1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Vlad\_Grigorescu1](https://community.zeek.org/u/Vlad_Grigorescu1)\
**Post date:** [June 27, 2014, 11:47am UTC](https://community.zeek.org/t/can-not-start-bro/3165/4 "2014-06-27T11:47:00Z")

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You should try this Puppet module: [https://forge.puppetlabs.com/panaman/bro](https://forge.puppetlabs.com/panaman/bro)

&nbsp;&nbsp;--Vlad

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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, 3:41pm UTC](https://community.zeek.org/t/can-not-start-bro/3165/5 "2022-05-06T15:41:52Z")

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Closed on May 6, 2022, 3:41pm UTC