snort doesn't start with default rules

Bug #1090883 reported by Jonathan Davies
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This bug affects 2 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
snort (Ubuntu)
Triaged
High
Unassigned

Bug Description

Installing snort on 12.04 LTS and running:

$ sudo snort -u snort -g snort -c /etc/snort/snort.conf -i eth0

Causes it to fail with:

ERROR: /etc/snort/rules/community-virus.rules(19) !any is not allowed: !$DNS_SERVERS.

Commented out lines 19 and 20 of the above file make it run.

Jonathan Davies (jpds)
Changed in snort (Ubuntu):
status: New → Triaged
importance: Undecided → High
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