problem installing bro on ubuntu 10.04

It sounds like you need to get familiar with linux/unix in general. There are a lot of excellent books on Linux on Amazon for questions such as these. These questions aren’t directly related to Bro.

The below looks like a cron entry to be run every 5 minutes.

Sridhar

hi

root@raj-Satellite-L300:/path/to/bro/bin# broctl start
No command ‘broctl’ found, did you mean:
Command ‘brctl’ from package ‘bridge-utils’ (main)
broctl: command not found

i am getting error when i did broctl installation thru this steps

Installing a Stand-alone Bro

This is the default installation. Configure and compile Bro as usual, specifying the target installation path as prefix (we use /usr/local/bro as an example):

thanx its done …

can anyone please tell me how & where can i see bro ouput

please

What sort of output are you looking for or expecting?

  .Seth

i am expecting network traffic and if any attacks there then bro should respond vt an alarm…

Thanx

Hi again
i installed bro ids on ubuntu

when ever i say ./broctl start
its saying bro running

but i need to see bro output and its traffic and more

can anyone let me know where i can find output for bro or do ineed to install any thing more…

please any can help me

Bro doesn't output traffic. It outputs logs and alarms. You can find your logs in the spool/ directory and I think those are rotated into the logs/ directory every 24 hours by default.

  .Seth

hi can any help me resolving this problem…

root@raj-Satellite-L300:/path/to/bro/bin# ./broctl start
starting bro …
warning: cannot send mail
bro terminated immediately after starting; check output with “diag”
root@raj-Satellite-L300:/path/to/bro/bin#

i given my email address orsr88@gmail.com at mailto line on broctl.cfg

Thanks & Regards

hi can anyone please help me on this when i run broctl immediately after installation but when i did same thing after restarting the computer i am getting this error.

root@raj-Satellite-L300:/path/
to/bro/bin# ./broctl start

starting bro …
warning: cannot send mail
bro terminated immediately after starting; check output with “diag”

root@raj-Satellite-L300:/path/to/bro/bin#

i given my email address orsr88@gmail.com at mailto line on broctl.cfg

Thanks & Regards