# no reports generated

**URL:** <https://community.zeek.org/t/no-reports-generated/1118>\
**Category:** Zeek\
**Created:** [February 1, 2007, 1:50am UTC](https://community.zeek.org/t/no-reports-generated/1118 "2007-02-01T01:50:30Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Jacob\_Yocom-Piatt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7ba0ec/32.png) [@Jacob\_Yocom-Piatt](https://community.zeek.org/u/Jacob_Yocom-Piatt)\
**Post date:** [February 1, 2007, 1:50am UTC](https://community.zeek.org/t/no-reports-generated/1118/1 "2007-02-01T01:50:30Z")

</div>

bro-1.2.1 is now running on a 4.0-release openbsd machine here (thx j-p!) and  
generating logs, however i got an empty report email this morning. i mean empty  
as in there was no body to the email i received.

when i installed bro, i had to manually add the bro user and change ownership of  
some of the directories in its install directory:

# ls -al /usr/local/bro  
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;  
total 68  
drwxr-xr-x 15 root wheel 512 Jan 30 20:05 .  
drwxr-xr-x 15 root wheel 512 Jan 30 19:52 ..  
drwxr-xr-x 2 bro wheel 512 Jan 30 19:52 archive  
drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Jan 30 20:02 bin  
drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Jan 30 20:10 etc  
drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Jan 30 20:00 include  
drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Jan 30 20:00 lib  
drwxr-xr-x 3 bro wheel 3584 Jan 31 03:00 logs  
drwxr-xr-x 4 root wheel 512 Jan 30 20:05 perl  
drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 4096 Jan 30 20:05 policy  
drwxr-xr-x 2 bro wheel 512 Jan 30 19:52 reports  
drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Jan 30 20:05 scripts  
drwxr-xr-x 4 root wheel 512 Jan 30 19:52 share  
drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Jan 30 20:05 site  
drwxr-xr-x 2 bro wheel 512 Jan 30 21:07 var

perhaps this has something to do with the empty report? i've looked through the  
system logs and cannot find anything indicating why the report was not generated.

cluesticking appreciated.

cheers,  
jake

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Jean-Philippe\_Luigg2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/aeb1de/32.png) [@Jean-Philippe\_Luigg2](https://community.zeek.org/u/Jean-Philippe_Luigg2)\
**Post date:** [February 1, 2007, 4:18pm UTC](https://community.zeek.org/t/no-reports-generated/1118/2 "2007-02-01T16:18:59Z")

</div>

Hello Jacob,

I think we've forgotten (in fact myself \<g\>) something with the process  
because it works for me.

Just do the following thing :

cd \<source\_path\>/bro-1.2.1/scripts/perl  
perl Makefile.PL  
make  
make install

I think it's the solution or something which is close (we may have to tweak  
the perl's conf) but if i remember successfully, it was correct.

Best regards.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**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, 3:38pm UTC](https://community.zeek.org/t/no-reports-generated/1118/3 "2022-05-06T15:38:09Z")

</div>